baneberry
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How to use baneberry in a sentence
There is baneberry, whose very name sufficiently describes its dangerous nature.
Falling in Love | Grant AllenEven as it was, I felt myself fortunate to have seen the baneberry in one of its few native haunts.
The Call of the Wildflower | Henry S. SaltI am also equally curious to know if anything eats the fruit of the red and white baneberry and the blue cohosh.
Ways of Nature | John Burroughs
British Dictionary definitions for baneberry
/ (ˈbeɪnbərɪ) /
Also called: (Brit) herb Christopher, (US) cohosh any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Actaea, esp A. spicata, which has small white flowers and red or white poisonous berries
a berry of any of these plants
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