pokeweed

[pohk-weed]

poke·weed

[pohk-weed]
noun
a tall herb, Phytolacca americana, of North America, having juicy purple berries and a purple root used in medicine, and young edible shoots resembling asparagus.
Also called poke·root [pohk-root, -root] , scoke, garget.


Origin:
1745–55, Americanism; poke4 + weed1
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Pokeweed is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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.
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pokeweed, pokeberry or pokeroot (ˈpəʊkˌwiːd)
 
n
Sometimes shortened to: poke, Also called: inkberry a tall North American plant, Phytolacca americana, that has small white flowers, juicy purple berries, and a poisonous purple root used medicinally: family Phytolaccaceae
 
[C18 poke, shortened from Algonquian puccoon plant used in dyeing, from pak blood]
 
pokeberry, pokeberry or pokeroot
 
n
 
[C18 poke, shortened from Algonquian puccoon plant used in dyeing, from pak blood]
 
pokeroot, pokeberry or pokeroot
 
n
 
[C18 poke, shortened from Algonquian puccoon plant used in dyeing, from pak blood]

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