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pokeweedalso called pokeberry or pokeStrong-smelling shrublike plant (Phytolacca americana) with a poisonous root resembling the shape of horseradish, native to wet or sandy areas of eastern North America. It has white flowers, reddish black berries, and dark green leaves that often are red-veined or borne on red leafstalks. The berries contain a red dye used to colour wine, candies, cloth, and paper. Like the roots, the red or purplish mature stalks are poisonous. Very young green shoots (up to about 6 in. [15 cm]), however, are edible. pokeSee peek/poke. poke [pōk] (computer science) An instruction that causes a value in a storage location in a microcomputer's main storage to be replaced.
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No sooner was it finished than it began to laugh and poke fun at him. The mottled, pin-headed guinea-hens, always resentful of captivity, ran screeching out into the tunnel and tried to poke their ugly, painted faces through the snow walls. So when the man woke, there was a poke beside him and something into the inside of it that moved. |
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