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Webster 1913 Edition

Phytolacca

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Phyˊto-lac′ca

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p

rop.

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

φυτόν

plant + It.

lacca

lac.]

(Bot.)

A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.