poisonberry

poisonberry
noun
Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
Hypernyms: ↑nightshade

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷- — see berry\ noun
: any of several plants with small inedible or poisonous fruits: as
a. : a shrub of the genus Cestrum
b. : a West Indian shrub (Bourreria succulenta) of the family Boraginaceae with small flowers in corymbose cymes
d. : bittersweet 2 a

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