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GARGET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
Synonyms:
garget; Phytolacca americana; pigeon berry; poke; scoke
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("garget" is a kind of...):
pokeweed (perennial of the genus Phytolacca)