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noun
Any of various plants that bear dark berries, or the berries themselves:
Ilex glabra (winterberry, gallberry)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of various plants that bear dark berries, or the berries themselves:
Ilex verticillata, American winterberry
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of various plants that bear dark berries, or the berries themselves:
Scaevola plumieri, a fan flower
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of various plants that bear dark berries, or the berries themselves:
Any plant of the genus Phytolacca, especially Phytolacca americana, the pokeweed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: gallberry, gall-berry, evergreen winterberry, Ilex glabra
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Broader terms: holly
History
From ink + berry.
Across languages
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