- poke|root
- poke|root «POHK root, -rut», noun.= pokeweed. (Cf. ↑pokeweed)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
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Poke — *An action of tapping and/or softly jabbing another person using a finger to gain their attention.Poke, Poké or POKE may refer to:*POKE, a BASIC programming language command *Poke (game), a card game *Poke (gesture), different definition for… … Wikipedia
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
root — root, rout The OED records two verbs spelt root (and pronounced like boot), and no fewer than ten verbs spelt rout (and pronounced like bout). An overlap occurs in the meaning ‘to poke about’, which can be either root about or rout about, each… … Modern English usage
root — [n] base, core basis, bedrock, beginnings, bottom, cause, center, crux, derivation, essence, essentiality, footing, foundation, fountain, fountainhead, fundamental, germ, ground, groundwork, heart, inception, infrastructure, mainspring, marrow,… … New thesaurus
poke around — poke about we were just poking around some antique shops Syn: search, hunt, rummage (around), forage, grub, root about/around, scavenge, nose around, ferret (about/around); sift through, rifle through, scour, comb, probe … Thesaurus of popular words
poke — {{11}}poke (n.1) sack, early 13c., probably from O.N.Fr. poque (12c.), probably from a P.Gmc. *puk (Cf. O.E. pocca, M.Du. poke, O.N. poki bag, pocket ), from PIE root *beu , an imitative root associated with words for to swell. {{12}}poke (n.2)… … Etymology dictionary
root — Synonyms and related words: IC analysis, accidence, acclaim, affix, affixation, allomorph, ancestors, anchor, antecedents, applaud, base, basis, beat the bushes, bed, bed on, bedrock, beginning, birthplace, boost, bottom, bottom on, bound… … Moby Thesaurus
poke — poke1 pokable, adj. /pohk/, v., poked, poking, n. v.t. 1. to prod or push, esp. with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs. 2. to make (a hole, one s way, etc.) by or as by prodding or pushing.… … Universalium
root — root1 rootlike, adj. /rooht, root/, n. 1. a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture. 2. a similar organ developed from some… … Universalium
root — I. /rut / (say rooht) noun 1. a part of the body of a plant which, typically, develops from the radicle, and grows downwards into the soil, fixing the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture. 2. a similar organ developed from some other part… …
