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🍇 A poisonous berry 🟣 A purple color
pokeberry

pokeberry

1 9.0
A reddish-purple color like the juice of pokeweed berries
  • noun
  • /ˈpoʊkˌbɛri/
  • US
: color pokeberry
  • The walls of the old house were painted a striking pokeberry color, reminiscent of the vibrant juice from pokeweed berries.

Examples

  • The artist mixed his paint to achieve a rich pokeberry hue, perfect for capturing the essence of autumn leaves.

  • "Thirty-four ninety-five, please." Harry filled out the box slip and stamped it with pokeberry-colored ink, a kind of runny maroon.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • She chose a pokeberry shade for her new velvet curtains, bringing warmth and depth to the room's decor.

Synonyms

purple-red
vspokeberry
1 2.2

A red color mixed with purple

leans more toward purple than pure red
reddish purple
vspokeberry
1 2.0

A purple color that has some red in it

has a richer red tone like fruit juice
rosy-purple
vspokeberry
1 2.3

A purple shade with a pink tint

is deeper and leans toward red rather than pink

How Dark

burgundy
24 4.9
maroon
7 3.6
pokeberry
  • US
1 9.0
rose
3 1.0
pink
172 1.0

Surface Forms

pokeberry singular
pokeberries plural

Morphology

pokeberry = poke + berry (transparent) = poke + berry

The color name is directly motivated by the appearance of the poke berry, so the compound components predict the derived colour sense.

Etymology

Pokeberry as a color comes from the deep reddish-purple juice of the poke berry, which people once used to make dye and ink. So a 'pokeberry' color means the deep, reddish-purple shade you see in the berry and its stains.