pokeberry
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[edit]pokeberry (plural pokeberries)
- Synonym of pokeweed (the plant Phytolacca americana or its dark red or purple fruit).
- 1975, Jesse Stuart, My world, page 8:
- I said that ink made from pokeberries was better than that made from inkballs. I said that inkballs on oak trees were scarce. All the other students laughed. They bought commercial ink at the stores.
- 2014, Lewis Carroll, Byron W. Sewell, Victoria J. Sewell, Alice's Adventures in an Appalachian Wonderland, Evertype, →ISBN, page 5:
- considerin in her mind ... iffen the pleasure o gatherin some pokeberries an drawin dark purple picthures on a flat rock wi em would be worth the trouble...