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ˈpigeon-berry
[f. pigeon n. + berry n.1]
1. One of several plants whose fruit is attractive to birds, esp. in North America, the pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, or a dogwood, Cornus canadensis or C. alternifolia, and, in the West Indies, Duranta repens; also, the fruit of these plants.
1775A. Burnaby Trav. 7 The pigeon-berry and rattle⁓snake-root, so esteemed in all ulcerous and pleuretical complaints. 1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 134 About the second or third year, another weed, called pigeon-berry, succeeds the fireweed. 1856W. E. Cormack Narr. Journey across Newfoundland iii. 13 The surface [of the ground] is bespangled..by..Cornus canadensis, bearing a cluster of wholesome red berries, sometimes called pigeon berries. 1868Canad. Naturalist III. 409 Among the most common plants which overspread the burned ground..are..the pigeonberry (Cornus canadensis); and the red strawberry. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 425. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades, Tropics, & Roaring Forties xviii. 425 A pretty tree with a large lavender flower, and great orange-coloured clusters of what are called ‘pigeon-berries’. 1920Britton & Millspaugh Bahama Flora 372 Duranta repens... Bermuda; Florida; West Indies and Mexico to northern South America. Pigeon-berry. 1942W. R. Van Dersal Ornamental Amer. Shrubs xii. 183 The plant [sc. Cornus alternifolia] has a number of common names, including..purple dogwood, pigeon-berry, umbrella tree, and pagoda cornel. 1958J. G. MacGregor North-West of 16 v. 62 The bright red pigeon-berries, and the piles of spruce cones shelled out by the squirrels. 1971H. M. S. Lewin in E. L. Wardman Bermuda Jubilee Garden v. 90/2 D[uranta] repens. Pigeon⁓berry, Sky-flower, Golden dewdrop. A slender evergreen shrub with drooping sprays of lilac-blue flowers that are followed by clusters of golden yellow berries. 1973Hitchcock & Cronquist Flora Pacific Northwest 104 P[hytolacca] americana L. Pokeberry, pokeweed, pigeon-berry.
2. pigeon-berry ash Austral., an evergreen tree of the genus Elæocarpus or Cryptocarya; pigeon-berry bush = sense 1 above; pigeon-berry tree Austral., the native mulberry, Litsea dealbata; also = pigeon-berry ash.
1785Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. I. 411 Pigeon-Berry Bush... Pigeons feed on the berries, which has been the occasion of its trivial name. 1832W. D. Williamson Hist. State Maine I. 115 The pigeon-berry bush is as tall as that of a blackberry, bears an abundance of small purple berries, the chief food of pigeons. 1884A. Nilson Timber Trees New South Wales 55 E[læocarpus] obovatus.— Ash; Pigeon-berry Tree.—A noble tree, attaining sometimes a height of 130 feet. 1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 563 Litsea dealbata... ‘Pigeon-berry Tree.’ ‘Native Mulberry.’ ‘Black Ash.’ 1936J. W. Audas Native Trees Austral. 190 Elaeocarpus Baurleni..grows in New South Wales to the Queensland border, known popularly as Pigeon-Berry Ash. Ibid. 192 Elaeocarpus obovatus..is known as Pigeon-berry Ash. Ibid. 229 Litsea dealbata... A well-known tree of Queensland and New South Wales called Native Mulberry or Pigeon-Berry Tree. 1965Austral. Encycl. III. 137/1 The rose maple or rose walnut..is most generally known to timber-getters as pigeon-berry ash. |