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pokeweed
Poke Poke, n. (Bot.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.
Pokeweed
Pokeweed Poke"weed`, n. (Bot.) See Poke, the plant.

Meaning of pokeweed from wikipedia

- pokeweed, pokeweed, poke sallet, pokeberry, dragonberries, pigeonberry weed, and inkberry, is a poisonous, herbaceous perennial plant in the pokeweed...
- Pacific Northwest of North America, pokeweed is an invasive species. Phytolacca americana (American pokeweed, pokeweed, poke) is used as a folk medicine...
- Pokeweed may refer to several species of genus Phytolacca: Phytolacca americana, or American pokeweed Phytolacca acinosa, or Indian pokeweed Phytolacca...
- Phytolacca icosandra, sometimes known as button pokeweed or tropical pokeweed, is a species of flowering plant found in the neotropics and introduced...
- United States (Wisconsin). Indian pokeweed is a hyperac****ulator for manganese. The young shoots of Indian pokeweed are cooked and eaten by the Gurung...
- Pokeweed mitogen is a mitogen derived from the roots of Phytolacca americana. It functions as a lectin and a mitotic stimulus for the division of lymphocytes...
- cuisine, turnip, collard, kale, garden cress, dandelion, mustard, and pokeweed greens are commonly cooked and often served with pieces of ham or bacon...
- in Spanish and umbu in Portuguese, is a m****ive evergreen tree in the Pokeweed Family (Phytolaccaceae) native to the Pampas of South America. As its specific...
- Mario; Avraham, Hava K****nty; Avraham, Shalom; Bala, Shukal, eds. (2005), "Pokeweed Mitogen", Encyclopedic Reference of Immunotoxicology, Springer, p. 509...
- by taxonomists, its cir****scription has varied. It is also known as the Pokeweed family. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998)...