garget
- noun
- /ˈɡɑrɡɪt/
- Specialized
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garget
- Some people use young garget shoots as a cooked vegetable in spring.
Examples
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The berries of the garget are highly toxic if ingested.
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The garget plant can grow up to five feet tall.
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The garden was overrun by wild garget plants.
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Many people are unaware that gargets can be toxic.
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Some people use young garget shoots as a cooked vegetable in spring.
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The berries of the garget are highly toxic if ingested.
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The garget plant can grow up to five feet tall.
Synonyms
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A tall wild plant with white flowers and poisonous berries
A tall wild plant with white flowers whose young shoots you can eat but whose berries and roots are poisonous
A tall North American plant with white flowers whose young shoots people cook but whose berries and roots are poisonous
A tall American plant with white flowers whose small dark fruits and roots are poisonous but young stems are edible
How Toxic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Garget comes from an old French word gargat that means 'throat', and the same root appears in the word gargle. A helpful way to remember the plant garget is that its dark berries are poisonous and can cause throat pain, so the name links to that harmful effect.