red baneberry

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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

   Synonymsredberryred-berrysnakeberryActaea rubra

   Broaderbaneberry

Questions about red baneberry

What does red baneberry mean?

red baneberry 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 red baneberry?

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

red baneberry 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.