indian poke

Questions about indian poke

What does indian poke mean?

indian poke means "North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for indian poke?

Close synonyms include white hellebore, American hellebore, bugbane, Veratrum viride, Phytolacca acinosa. 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 indian poke a common word?

indian poke is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.