pokeweedn.
/ˈpəʊkwiːd/, U.S. /ˈpoʊkˌwid/ A large-leaved, coarse, succulent North American plant, Phytolacca americana (family Phytolaccaceae), having red stems, long racemes of small white flowers, and purplish-black berries, and of which the young leaves are eaten as a vegetable or salad. Also called poke, Virginia poke (see poke n.4).
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poke1687
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pork physic1733
pokeweed1751
pokeberry1754
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guinea-hen weed1836
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ink weed1913
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > poke-weed
pokeweed1751
poke salad1877
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific plant > poke-weed
poke root1687
phytolacca1730
pokeweed1751
scoke1794
1751 Gentleman's Mag. July 306/2 Tho' the Phytolacca be known to almost every one in America, by the name of pokeweed,..yet I think it proper..to give a description of it.
1800 H. Piozzi Thraliana 12 Sept. (1942) ii. 1008 Phytolacca or Pokeweed is a domestic Plant in Virginia and New York, grows in all their Plantations. The Juice squeez'd & set in a Pewter dish in ye Sun till thick, cures Cancers.
1880 M. Allan-Olney New Virginians I. 53 They had stained it pink with poke-weed berries. This poke-weed is the Phytolacca—a tall, handsome plant which grows in fence corners.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 3 July 15/2 A beautiful black woman..supplied some delectable recipes (several ways to serve pokeweed, for instance).
1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden i. 12 Nowhere else in the world do pokeweeds grow so quickly or make roots so enormous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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