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RED-BERRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries

Synonyms:

Actaea rubra; red-berry; red baneberry; redberry; snakeberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("red-berry" is a kind of...):

baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher (a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries

Synonyms:

red-berry; redberry; Rhamnus croceus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("red-berry" is a kind of...):

buckthorn (a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments)

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