actaea alba

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   North American herb with white poisonous berries

   Synonymswhite baneberrywhite cohoshwhite beaddoll's eyes

   Broaderbaneberry

Questions about actaea alba

What does actaea alba mean?

actaea alba means "North American herb with white poisonous berries".

What is another word for actaea alba?

Close synonyms include white baneberry, white cohosh, white bead, doll's eyes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is actaea alba a common word?

actaea alba is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.