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n. Any of several perennial herbs of the genus Actaea, native to northern temperate regions, having terminal clusters of red, white, or blackish berries.

n. The poisonous berry of a plant of this genus.

n. A flowering plant of the genus Actaea.

n. The poisonous berry of one of these plants.

n. A genus (Actæa) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceæ, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.

n. The common name of plants of the genus Actæa: so called because of their nauseous poisonous berries. Also called herb-christopher. See Actæa.

n. a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea

n. a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries

"Up close they were head-high in a riot of color: red paintbrush, lavender fleabane, hot-pink fireweed, white cow parsnip, lacy green false hellebore, the flashy red of chokecherries, white pearls of baneberry, rich purple huckleberries, fierce yellows of butterweed and arnica."

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