actaea rubra

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   North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries

   Synonymsred baneberryredberryred-berrysnakeberry

   Broaderbaneberry

Questions about actaea rubra

What does actaea rubra mean?

actaea rubra means "North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries".

What is another word for actaea rubra?

Close synonyms include red baneberry, redberry, red-berry, snakeberry. 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 rubra a common word?

actaea rubra 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.