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词汇 baneberry
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Definition of baneberry in English:

baneberry

nounPlural baneberries ˈbeɪnb(ə)riˈbeɪnˌbɛri
  • 1A plant of the buttercup family, which bears fluffy spikes of creamy-white flowers followed by shiny berries, found in north temperate regions.

    类叶升麻属植物

    Genus Actaea, family Ranunculaceae, especially the common Eurasian A. spicata (also called herb Christopher), with black berries

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The distinguishing feature is the stalk of each flower - it is very slender in red baneberry, and thick in white baneberry.
    • Like all the other baneberries, the ferny leaves are a pleasure from spring to autumn.
    • White and red baneberries, trillium, arisaemas… those Jack-in-the-pulpits kids love to open up and peer into, and hay scented, Christmas and maidenhair ferns… they had already staked their claim on the dry floor bed.
    • Thus we find, in no particular order, periwinkles, gooseberries, baneberries, greater celandine, feverfew, and sempervivum.
    • Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken.
    • In place of Aryan glory I'd grown patches of wiry baneberry thistles interspersed with industrial size brillo bathtub scrubbers.
    • Some of the rare plants to benefit from the Project will include limestone fern, baneberry, soloman's seal and rigid buckler fern.
    • We share pink delicious gum in our garden by puffs of pearl white baneberries near the gleaming stream.
    • Groundlayer species are typical mesic woodland plants such as bedstraws, large-leaved aster, golden saxifrage (in springs), baneberries, miterworts, spring beauty, Canada mayflower, wild geranium, and violets.
    • If buttercups are child-like, and bugbanes are adults, the baneberries are the crazy in-laws.
    • European species have fatally poisoned children, but baneberries are not reported to have caused death to humans or livestock in the United States.
    • He takes pleasure in the wild areas that seem secure for now, like the woodlot across the street where toothworts (Dentaria spp.), red baneberries and purple trilliums grow.
    • Avoid the lookalike baneberries that grow in forests, not bogs.
    • Yellow lady's slipper, ram's head lady's slipper, asters, sedges, white and red baneberries, wild sarsaparilla, spotted touch-me-not, goldenrods and a variety of fern species are common species of the herb layer.
    • In the meantime, our new wildflower collection now has some nice trillium and baneberries in progress.
    1. 1.1 The bitter, often poisonous, berry of the baneberry.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If you know about it or if you know how to buy baneberries (dried or powdered), kindly send information.
      • But baneberries have some subtle but noticeable differences from the highbush cranberries.
      • Next you will add three baneberries; this is very important because if you don't, you will make the Draught of Unknown Desires, which will be effective for about an hour.
      • Mountain ash will hold its berries all winter, but baneberries are falling, drops of lip-red venom in the moss.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from bane in the sense 'poison' + berry.

Definition of baneberry in US English:

baneberry

nounˈbānˌberēˈbeɪnˌbɛri
  • 1A plant of the buttercup family that bears fluffy spikes of creamy-white flowers followed by shiny berries. Native to north temperate regions, it was formerly used in medicine.

    类叶升麻属植物

    Genus Actaea, family Ranunculaceae: many species, including the North American white baneberry (A. pachypoda), with clusters of black-eyed white berries on red stalks

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some of the rare plants to benefit from the Project will include limestone fern, baneberry, soloman's seal and rigid buckler fern.
    • White and red baneberries, trillium, arisaemas… those Jack-in-the-pulpits kids love to open up and peer into, and hay scented, Christmas and maidenhair ferns… they had already staked their claim on the dry floor bed.
    • European species have fatally poisoned children, but baneberries are not reported to have caused death to humans or livestock in the United States.
    • We share pink delicious gum in our garden by puffs of pearl white baneberries near the gleaming stream.
    • Like all the other baneberries, the ferny leaves are a pleasure from spring to autumn.
    • If buttercups are child-like, and bugbanes are adults, the baneberries are the crazy in-laws.
    • Common in the understory are chokecherry, beaked hazelnut, a wild rose, red baneberry, thimbleberry, and bracken.
    • Yellow lady's slipper, ram's head lady's slipper, asters, sedges, white and red baneberries, wild sarsaparilla, spotted touch-me-not, goldenrods and a variety of fern species are common species of the herb layer.
    • Thus we find, in no particular order, periwinkles, gooseberries, baneberries, greater celandine, feverfew, and sempervivum.
    • Avoid the lookalike baneberries that grow in forests, not bogs.
    • The distinguishing feature is the stalk of each flower - it is very slender in red baneberry, and thick in white baneberry.
    • He takes pleasure in the wild areas that seem secure for now, like the woodlot across the street where toothworts (Dentaria spp.), red baneberries and purple trilliums grow.
    • In place of Aryan glory I'd grown patches of wiry baneberry thistles interspersed with industrial size brillo bathtub scrubbers.
    • Groundlayer species are typical mesic woodland plants such as bedstraws, large-leaved aster, golden saxifrage (in springs), baneberries, miterworts, spring beauty, Canada mayflower, wild geranium, and violets.
    • In the meantime, our new wildflower collection now has some nice trillium and baneberries in progress.
    1. 1.1 The bitter, typically poisonous berry of the baneberry plant.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Next you will add three baneberries; this is very important because if you don't, you will make the Draught of Unknown Desires, which will be effective for about an hour.
      • Mountain ash will hold its berries all winter, but baneberries are falling, drops of lip-red venom in the moss.
      • But baneberries have some subtle but noticeable differences from the highbush cranberries.
      • If you know about it or if you know how to buy baneberries (dried or powdered), kindly send information.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from bane in the sense ‘poison’ + berry.

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