noun
Meaning 1
A flowering plant of the genus Actaea (syn. Cimicifuga).
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
baneberry
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noun
Meaning 2
The poisonous berry of one of these plants.
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noun
Meaning 3
a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cohosh, herb Christopher
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: poisonous plant
Narrower terms: red baneberry, redberry, red-berry, snakeberry, Actaea rubra, white baneberry, white cohosh, white bead, doll's eyes, Actaea alba
noun
Meaning 4
a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: berry
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *banô Proto-West Germanic *banō Old English bana Middle English bane English bane Middle English berye English berry English baneberry From bane + berry.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: ресник (resnik) — plant
- Esperanto: akteo — plant
- Finnish: konnanmarja — plant
- Finnish: kimikki — plant
- German: Christophskraut — plant
- Greek: ακταία (aktaía) — plant
- Polish: czerniec — plant
- Russian: вороне́ц (voronéc) — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: ха̀булица — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: hàbulica — plant
- Turkish: domuz üzümü — plant
- Finnish: konnanmarja — berry
- Latin: actaea — berry
- Polish: czerniec — berry
- Lower Tanana: neɬteni ch'ejega' — berry
- Turkish: domuz üzümü — berry