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    RED-BERRY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berriesplay

    Synonyms:

    Actaea rubra; red-berry; red baneberry; redberry; snakeberry

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("red-berry" is a kind of...):

    baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher (a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berriesplay

    Synonyms:

    red-berry; redberry; Rhamnus croceus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("red-berry" is a kind of...):

    buckthorn (a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments)

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