baneberry

English

white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)

Etymology

bane +‎ berry

Noun

baneberry (plural baneberries)

A flowering plant of the genus Actaea (syn. Cimicifuga).
The poisonous berry of one of these plants.

Derived terms

white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda; white cohosh, doll's eyes)
red baneberry (Actaea rubra (syn. Actaea erythrocarpa); chinaberry))

Translations

plant

Bulgarian: ресник (resnik)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: konnanmarja (fi), kimikki (fi) (some species)
German: Christophskraut n
Greek: ακταία f (aktaía)
Polish: czerniec m
Russian: вороне́ц (ru) m (voronéc)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ха̀булица f

Latin: hàbulica (sh) f

berry

Finnish: konnanmarja (fi)
Latin: actaea f

See also

References

baneberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Actaea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
“baneberry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
“baneberry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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