Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
poison-berry is a noun meaning "Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible". It carries one recorded sense.
Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for poison-berry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.