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SCOKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scoke mean?
• SCOKE (noun)
The noun SCOKE 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 poisonous
Familiarity information: SCOKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("scoke" is a kind of...):
pokeweed (perennial of the genus Phytolacca)
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