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Definition of Pokeberry
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pokeberry
Literary usage of Pokeberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seed-travellers: Studies of the Methods of Dispersal of Various Common Seeds by Clarence Moores Weed (1899)
"IN many places throughout the northern states, especially in recent clearings in
woodlands, the pokeberry, pokeweed, FlG. 24. ..."
2. On Newfound River by Thomas Nelson Page (1891)
"He didn't know anybody who could catch him except pokeberry; should he tell
pokeberry to go after ... The mention of pokeberry touched the major into flame. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"pokeberry is sometimes a troublesome weed. It is thoroughly naturalized in Europe.
It has been used to give color to pale wines, but its use for this ..."
4. Elbow-room: A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark, Arthur Burdett Frost (1876)
"It's nothin' on earth but pokeberry. This is the California kind—the deadliest
... They are the Mexican pokeberry. I pledge you my word it's the awfulest ..."
5. Seed Travellers: Studies of the Methods of Dispersal of Various Common Seeds by Clarence Moores Weed (1898)
"IN many places throughout the northern states, especially in recent clearings in
woodlands, the pokeberry, pokeweed, PIG. 24. ..."
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