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单词 baneberry
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Definition of baneberry in English:

baneberry

nounPlural baneberries ˈbeɪnb(ə)riˈbeɪnˌbɛri
  • 1A plant of the buttercup family, which bears fluffy spikes of creamy-white flowers followed by shiny berries, found in north temperate regions.

    Genus Actaea, family Ranunculaceae, especially the common Eurasian A. spicata (also called herb Christopher), with black berries

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The distinguishing feature is the stalk of each flower - it is very slender in red baneberry, and thick in white baneberry.
    • Like all the other baneberries, the ferny leaves are a pleasure from spring to autumn.
    • White and red baneberries, trillium, arisaemas… those Jack-in-the-pulpits kids love to open up and peer into, and hay scented, Christmas and maidenhair ferns… they had already staked their claim on the dry floor bed.
    • Thus we find, in no particular order, periwinkles, gooseberries, baneberries, greater celandine, feverfew, and sempervivum.
    • Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken.
    • In place of Aryan glory I'd grown patches of wiry baneberry thistles interspersed with industrial size brillo bathtub scrubbers.
    • Some of the rare plants to benefit from the Project will include limestone fern, baneberry, soloman's seal and rigid buckler fern.
    • We share pink delicious gum in our garden by puffs of pearl white baneberries near the gleaming stream.
    • Groundlayer species are typical mesic woodland plants such as bedstraws, large-leaved aster, golden saxifrage (in springs), baneberries, miterworts, spring beauty, Canada mayflower, wild geranium, and violets.
    • If buttercups are child-like, and bugbanes are adults, the baneberries are the crazy in-laws.
    • European species have fatally poisoned children, but baneberries are not reported to have caused death to humans or livestock in the United States.
    • He takes pleasure in the wild areas that seem secure for now, like the woodlot across the street where toothworts (Dentaria spp.), red baneberries and purple trilliums grow.
    • Avoid the lookalike baneberries that grow in forests, not bogs.
    • Yellow lady's slipper, ram's head lady's slipper, asters, sedges, white and red baneberries, wild sarsaparilla, spotted touch-me-not, goldenrods and a variety of fern species are common species of the herb layer.
    • In the meantime, our new wildflower collection now has some nice trillium and baneberries in progress.
    1. 1.1 The bitter, often poisonous, berry of the baneberry.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If you know about it or if you know how to buy baneberries (dried or powdered), kindly send information.
      • But baneberries have some subtle but noticeable differences from the highbush cranberries.
      • Next you will add three baneberries; this is very important because if you don't, you will make the Draught of Unknown Desires, which will be effective for about an hour.
      • Mountain ash will hold its berries all winter, but baneberries are falling, drops of lip-red venom in the moss.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from bane in the sense 'poison' + berry.

 
 

Definition of baneberry in US English:

baneberry

nounˈbānˌberēˈbeɪnˌbɛri
  • 1A plant of the buttercup family that bears fluffy spikes of creamy-white flowers followed by shiny berries. Native to north temperate regions, it was formerly used in medicine.

    Genus Actaea, family Ranunculaceae: many species, including the North American white baneberry (A. pachypoda), with clusters of black-eyed white berries on red stalks

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some of the rare plants to benefit from the Project will include limestone fern, baneberry, soloman's seal and rigid buckler fern.
    • White and red baneberries, trillium, arisaemas… those Jack-in-the-pulpits kids love to open up and peer into, and hay scented, Christmas and maidenhair ferns… they had already staked their claim on the dry floor bed.
    • European species have fatally poisoned children, but baneberries are not reported to have caused death to humans or livestock in the United States.
    • We share pink delicious gum in our garden by puffs of pearl white baneberries near the gleaming stream.
    • Like all the other baneberries, the ferny leaves are a pleasure from spring to autumn.
    • If buttercups are child-like, and bugbanes are adults, the baneberries are the crazy in-laws.
    • Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken.
    • Yellow lady's slipper, ram's head lady's slipper, asters, sedges, white and red baneberries, wild sarsaparilla, spotted touch-me-not, goldenrods and a variety of fern species are common species of the herb layer.
    • Thus we find, in no particular order, periwinkles, gooseberries, baneberries, greater celandine, feverfew, and sempervivum.
    • Avoid the lookalike baneberries that grow in forests, not bogs.
    • The distinguishing feature is the stalk of each flower - it is very slender in red baneberry, and thick in white baneberry.
    • He takes pleasure in the wild areas that seem secure for now, like the woodlot across the street where toothworts (Dentaria spp.), red baneberries and purple trilliums grow.
    • In place of Aryan glory I'd grown patches of wiry baneberry thistles interspersed with industrial size brillo bathtub scrubbers.
    • Groundlayer species are typical mesic woodland plants such as bedstraws, large-leaved aster, golden saxifrage (in springs), baneberries, miterworts, spring beauty, Canada mayflower, wild geranium, and violets.
    • In the meantime, our new wildflower collection now has some nice trillium and baneberries in progress.
    1. 1.1 The bitter, typically poisonous berry of the baneberry plant.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Next you will add three baneberries; this is very important because if you don't, you will make the Draught of Unknown Desires, which will be effective for about an hour.
      • Mountain ash will hold its berries all winter, but baneberries are falling, drops of lip-red venom in the moss.
      • But baneberries have some subtle but noticeable differences from the highbush cranberries.
      • If you know about it or if you know how to buy baneberries (dried or powdered), kindly send information.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from bane in the sense ‘poison’ + berry.

 
 
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