baneberry

baneberry

English

white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)

Etymology

bane +‎ berry

Noun

baneberry (plural baneberries)

1. A flowering plant of the genus Actaea, also called genus Cimicifuga.
2. The poisonous berry of one of these plants.

Derived terms

• white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda; white cohosh, doll's eyes)
• red baneberry (Actaea rubra (syn. Actaea erythrocarpa); chinaberry))

Translations

plant

Bulgarian: ресник (resnik) German: Christophskraut n

Polish: czerniec m Russian: вороне́ц (ru) m (voronéc)

berry

See also

• bugbane
• cohosh

References

• baneberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Actaea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• baneberry at OneLook Dictionary Search
• baneberry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.