INDIAN POKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian poke mean? 

• INDIAN POKE (noun)
  The noun INDIAN POKE has 2 senses:

1. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally

2. pokeweed of southeastern Asia and China

  Familiarity information: INDIAN POKE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIAN POKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American hellebore; bugbane; Indian poke; Veratrum viride; white hellebore

Hypernyms ("Indian poke" is a kind of...):

false hellebore; hellebore (perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pokeweed of southeastern Asia and China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Indian poke; Phytolacca acinosa

Hypernyms ("Indian poke" is a kind of...):

pokeweed (perennial of the genus Phytolacca)