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Baneberry

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Noun

1. baneberry

a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea

2. baneberry, cohosh, herb christopher

a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Baneberry

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noun plural -ries
1. Also called: ()in Brit herb Christopher or ()in US cohosh
any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Actaea, esp A. spicata, which has small white flowers and red or white poisonous berries
2. 
a berry of any of these plants

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Baneberry

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nounWord forms: plural ˈbaneˌberries
1. 
any of a genus (Actaea) of plants of the buttercup family, with clusters of fleshy, white or red, poisonous berries
2. 
the berry of any of these plants

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Baneberry

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n.
1. Any of several perennial herbs of the genus Actaea in the buttercup family, native to northern temperate regions, having terminal clusters of red, white, or blackish berries.
2. The poisonous berry of a plant of this genus.

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