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SNAKEBERRY
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I. (noun)
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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:
Hypernyms ("snakeberry" is a kind of...):
baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher (a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries)