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Definition of Pokeberries
1. pokeberry [n] - See also: pokeberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pokeberries
Literary usage of Pokeberries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
""Now, if we just only had some pokeberries to paint us red, we'd be real, for
sure enough Indians, and we could go on the warpath and fight all the other ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"... mass at the back of her neck, and grew low over her forehead, shading eyes
which were as black as pokeberries. She held a knife in one hand and a basket ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1892)
"... and once in that time elderberries brought one dollar per bushel. I do not
remember quotations on pokeberries that year—perhaps they were ..."
4. Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)
"... Virginia creeper berries 25 Bayberries 25 June-berries 20 Juniper berries 25
Holly berries 19 Strawberries 18 Viburnum 18 Wild grapes 29 pokeberries. ..."
5. Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: Being a by John Fanning Watson (1870)
"Thus, in the commons, the Jamestown weed was used, by smoking it in a pipe, for
the asthma ; the pokeberries, when ripe, and the juice dried in the sun, ..."
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