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GARGET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garget mean? 

GARGET (noun)
  The noun GARGET has 1 sense:

1. tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonousplay

  Familiarity information: GARGET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GARGET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

garget; Phytolacca americana; pigeon berry; poke; scoke

Hypernyms ("garget" is a kind of...):

pokeweed (perennial of the genus Phytolacca)


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