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Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes
Answer for the clue "Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes ", 6 letters:
garget
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Word definitions for garget in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poke \Poke\, n. (Bot.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca ( Phytolacca decandra ), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget , pigeon berry , pocan , and pokeweed . The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 [syn: poke , pigeon berry , scoke , Phytolacca americana ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The throat. 2 An inflammation on a cow's udder. 3 A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite. 4 (context botany obsolete English) pokeweed.
Usage examples of garget.
Some superstitious fools suppose that they which die of the garget are ridden with the nightmare, and therefore they hang up stones which naturally have holes in them, and must be found unlooked for.
When she had finished listing wooden udder, ear wilt and the octarine garget she tried to recall the complex code of dots and lines that they used to cut in the trees around Bad Ass, so that lost villagers could find their way home on snowy nights.