baneberry
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| —n , pl -ries | |
| 1. | herb Christopher, Also called: cohosh any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Actaea, esp A. spicata, which has small white flowers and red or white poisonous berries |
| 2. | a berry of any of these plants |
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Baneberry
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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baneberry
any of about eight species of perennial herbaceous plants constituting the genus Actaea of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae); they are all native to North Temperate Zone woodlands.
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Example sentences
Baneberry grows in forested environments, and can reach two to three feet in height.
Baneberry plants grow in meadows and have toothed-compound leaves.
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