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🍒 A toxic berry 🌿 A toxic plant
baneberry

baneberry

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A bright red poisonous berry that can make you very sick if eaten
  • noun
  • /ˈbeɪnˌbɛri/
  • Specialized
translation icon : baya venenosa
  • The bright red baneberry plants are attractive, but they are highly toxic if eaten.
  • red baneberry
  • white baneberry

Examples

  • Children should be taught not to eat baneberries due to their poisonous properties.

  • Children should be taught to avoid touching or tasting baneberries due to their poisonous nature.

  • Hikers are warned not to eat any baneberry they find in the woods.

  • The bright red baneberry is attractive but highly toxic if ingested.

  • Many hikers unknowingly encountered baneberries on their trail.

  • Can you identify baneberry among other wild berries?

  • During our hike, we noticed that the baneberry bushes were abundant in the shaded areas of the forest.

Compounds

red baneberry
  • Specialized
9.9

A plant from North America with red poisonous berries and small white flowers

white baneberry
  • Specialized
9.9

A forest plant with white poisonous berries that look like small round eyes

How Poisonous

baneberry
  • Specialized
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snakeberry
  • US
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Surface Forms

baneberry singular
baneberries plural

Morphology

baneberry = bane + berry (transparent) = bane + berry

Formed transparently from 'bane' (poison/harm) + 'berry', so the sense 'poisonous berry' is directly deducible.

Etymology

The word baneberry starts with bane, an old English word that means 'death' or 'harm', and ends with berry, a small fruit. So thinking of it as a 'death-berry' helps you remember that its bright berries are poisonous.