SNAKEBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snakeberry mean? 

• SNAKEBERRY (noun)
  The noun SNAKEBERRY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SNAKEBERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNAKEBERRY (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Actaea rubra; red-berry; red baneberry; redberry; snakeberry

Hypernyms ("snakeberry" is a kind of...):

baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher (a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries)