pokeweed

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈpoʊkˌwid/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A poisonous North American plant, Phytolacca americana, with reddish stems, broad leaves, clusters of white flowers, and dark purple berries. countable,uncountable
    — Native Americans introduced whites and slaves to several edible greens including marigold, milkweed, and pokeweed (Whit 2007). Slaves boiled pokeweed and often mixed it with turnip greens because it was thought that the two vegetables enhanced each other's flavor.

词形变化

pokeweeds plural

词源

From poke + weed. The first element is from Powhatan pocan.
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