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GARGET

Dictionary entry overview: What does garget mean?

• GARGET (noun)
The noun GARGET has 1 sense:

1. tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous

Familiarity information: GARGET used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GARGET (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

garget; Phytolacca americana; pigeon berry; poke; scoke

Hypernyms ("garget" is a kind of...):

pokeweed (perennial of the genus Phytolacca)

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