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单词 virginia poke
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Virginia poke
1. More fully Virginia poke, Virginian poke. Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana. Also (with distinguishing word): any plant of the genus Phytolacca. Recorded earliest in poke root n. tree poke: see tree poke n. at tree n. Compounds 2a(b).
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redweed1624
poke1687
phytolacca1730
pork physic1733
pokeweed1751
pokeberry1754
rivina1754
guinea-hen weed1836
hoop-withe1847
pocan1858
strong man's weed1864
ink weed1913
1687 J. Clayton Let. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 150 When they design to give a Purge, they make use of..Poake-root, i.e. Solanum bacciferum.
1708 W. Byrd Let. 10 Sept. in William & Mary Q. (1921) 1 190 We call the plant here [i.e. in Virginia] Poke; it bears a purple berry.
1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Phytolacca,..American Nightshade,..commonly call'd Virginian Poke or Porke Physick.
1769 W. Stork Descr. E. Florida 19 Phytolacca octandra... In Mexico, like Virginia poke.
1802 J. Drayton View S.-Carolina 70 Poke. (Phytolacca decandria.) Grows on rich land. The young sprouts of it are used in the spring for soup.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 885/2 The Pocan, or Virginian Poke or Poke-weed, is a branching herbaceous plant, with a smooth green or sometimes purplish stem..with large green or purplish leaves.
1908 A. R. Harding Ginseng & Other Medicinal Plants (rev. ed.) xxiii. 265 Pokeweed. Phytolacca decandra L. a... Poke, pigeon-berry,..Virginia poke, inkberry,..American nightshade.
1945 Chicago Tribune 13 May vii. 1/3 Opal had found the first tightly curled leaves of poke, the best known of all Ozark greens.
1977 W. H. Lewis & M. P. F. Elvin-Lewis Med. Bot. iv. 90/1 Poke..has long been a favorite spring potherb in the southern United States.
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