| 单词 | pocan bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspocan bush The pokeweed, Phytolacca americana (also pocan bush). Also: the berry of this plant. Cf. poke n.4 ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Phytolaccaceae (poke-weed and allies) > [noun] redweed1624 poke1687 phytolacca1730 pork physic1733 pokeweed1751 pokeberry1754 rivina1754 guinea-hen weed1836 hoop-withe1847 pocan1858 strong man's weed1864 ink weed1913 1704 J. Ray Historia Plantarum III. xii. 349 Solanum racemosum tinctorium American[um]..Anglis colonis Red-weed dicitur. Pocan Virginiensibus, & nostratibus Pork Physick..nuncupatur.] 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 293/2 Pocan-bush, a name in the United States for the Phytolacca decandra. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 885/2 The Pocan, or Virginian Poke or Poke-weed, is a branching herbaceous plant, with a smooth green or sometimes purplish stem..with large green or purplish leaves. 1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 478 Poke-Berry, the berry of the Phytolacca, from which a rich purple juice is extracted, and used as a dye. (Also called Pigeon-berry and Pocan). 1931 W. N. Clute Common Names Plants 24 This plant [sc.Phytolacca decandra] is certainly the pocan of the Indians and the pocan-bush of the whites. 1960 Geogr. Rev. 50 8 The pokeberry is known as pocan (a Virginian Indian word for ‘dye,’ equivalent to ‘puccoon’). 2000 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 25 June (Home section) c6 Herbalists sometimes call the plant coakum, pigeon berry, pocan, or red plant (because of its stem color). < as lemmas |
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