baneberry

English

white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)

Etymology

bane +‎ berry

Noun

baneberry (plural baneberries)

1. A flowering plant of the genus Actaea (syn. Cimicifuga).
2. The poisonous berry of one of these plants.

Derived terms

• white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda; white cohosh, doll's eyes)
• red baneberry (Actaea rubra (syn. Actaea erythrocarpa); chinaberry))

Translations

plant

• Bulgarian: ресник (resnik)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: konnanmarja (fi), kimikki (fi) (some species)
• German: Christophskraut n
• Greek: ακταία f (aktaía)
• Polish: czerniec m
• Russian: вороне́ц (ru) m (voronéc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ха̀булица f

  Latin: hàbulica (sh) f

berry

• Finnish: konnanmarja (fi)
• Latin: actaea f

See also

• bugbane
• cohosh

References

• baneberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Actaea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “baneberry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “baneberry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.