phytolacca

See also: Phytolacca

English

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Etymology

From New Latin phytolacca, from Ancient Greek φῠτόν (phutón, “plant”) + Italian lacca (“crimson lake”).

Noun

phytolacca (plural phytolaccas)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Phytolacca of herbaceous plants; the poke or pokeweed. [from 18th c.]
    • 1801 May, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana, volume II,1:
      Phytolacca or Pokeweed is a domestic Plant in Virginia and New York, grows in all their Plantations.
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