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Definition of Pokeweeds
1. pokeweed [n] - See also: pokeweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pokeweeds
Literary usage of Pokeweeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"Most of the pokeweeds possess bitter emetic or purgative properties, and some
are violent poisons. On the other hand, the herbage of ..."
2. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"... an endemic species of the American " pokeweeds " ; and he will feel grateful
to the American botanists like Professor Weed when they tell him that in ..."
3. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"Family Phytolaccaceae (pokeweeds) : Herbs, shrubs, and trees with usually alternate
leaves ; petals 0 (or 4-5); carpels several, distinct or nearly so, ..."
4. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"... pokeweeds. Perianth of 4—5-petaloid leaves. Stamens either indefinite, or, if
equal to the number of the divisions of the perianth, alternate with them. ..."
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