| 释义 |
ˈink-ˌberry
A name given, from their colour or juice, to various berries, and to the shrubs that produce them. a. A small shrub of the holly family (Prinos glaber or Ilex glabra), a native of the Atlantic coast of N. America. b. The West Indian indigo-berry (Randia aculeata). c. The plant Mollinedia (or Kibara) macrophylla, called Australian or Queensland inkberry. d. inkberry weed, the poke weed (Phytolacca decandra), a native of the Atlantic coast of N. America and North Africa, the Azores and China; called also, from its purplish-red juice, red-ink plant.
c1850Nat. Encycl. I. 959 Prinos glaber is a low handsome shrub, with white flowers and a black fruit; hence it is called, in Jersey, ink-berries. 1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. VIII. 26 Inkberry, Ilex glabra, a shrub belonging to the holly family. |