Hypertext Webster Gateway: "baneberry"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Baneberry \Bane"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.)
A genus {(Act[ae]a)} of plants, of the order
{Ranunculace[ae]}, native in the north temperate zone. The
red or white berries are poisonous.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
baneberry
n 1: a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea
2: a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
[syn: {cohosh}, {herb Christopher}]
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