baneberry

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *banô Proto-West Germanic *banō Old English bana Middle English bane English bane Middle English berye English berry English baneberry From bane + berry.

derived from *banô Proto-West Germanic *banō Old English bana Middle English bane English bane Middle English berye English berry English baneberry From bane + berry✻

Definitions

A flowering plant of the genus Actaea (syn. Cimicifuga).
The poisonous berry of one of these plants.

The neighborhood

neighborbugbane
neighborcohosh

Derived

white baneberry, red baneberry, chinaberry

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for baneberry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA