phytolacca
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English
Etymology
From New Latin phytolacca, from Ancient Greek φῠτόν (phutón, “plant”) + Italian lacca (“crimson lake”).
Noun
phytolacca (plural phytolaccas)
- (botany) Any of the genus Phytolacca of herbaceous plants; the poke or pokeweed.
- 1801 May, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana, volume II,1:
- Phytolacca or Pokeweed is a domestic Plant in Virginia and New York, grows in all their Plantations.