Usage of "pigeon berry"

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.

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Examples for "poke"

Poppy had started using her pencil to poke holes in her paper. 
 The city of ember: book 1 

Then they can poke out their long, sticky arms and snag food. 
 BBC 

I gave him a fast hard poke that couldn't have felt good. 
 Sympathy for the devil 

I read the letter and poke it into the stove, and proceed. 
 Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Compiled From Her Letters and Jo... 

Kids at school and opposing sporting teams would 'poke' fun at me. 
 News.com.au 

Your cow has undoubtedly been affected with garget. 
 One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered 

Use it for caked bags, or garget, for cuts, cracks, scratches or sores on udder or teats. 
 Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry 

When the calves are taken from their dams there is the greatest danger of garget, and this is always an anxious time with the breeder. 
 Cattle and Cattle-breeders 

Description of "Poke" or Garget, (Phytolacca Decandra). 
 Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader / B... 

Tom Garget; this way, man! 
 The Master of Appleby / A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part w... 

Uso de pigeon berry en inglés

Pigeon berries are not to be eaten. 
 The Golden Road 

Along the edges of that winding path grew banks of velvet green moss, starred with clusters of pigeon berries. 
 The Golden Road 

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Significados de pigeon berry en inglés