Word Meanings - POKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine.

Additional info about word: POKE

A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POKE)

• Punch
• Perforate
• poke
• pierce
• puncture
• terebrate
• bore

Related words: (words related to POKE)

• PUNCHER
  One who, or that which, punches.
• PUNCTURE
  1. The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed. 2. A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin. A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp. Rambler.
• PUNCHY
  Short and thick, or fat.
• PUNCHINELLO
  A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator. (more info) of endearment, dim. of pulcina, pulcino, a chicken, from L.
• PIERCER
  1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
• PERFORATE
  To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of. Bacon.
• PERFORATE; PERFORATED
  Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
• PUNCHEON
  A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. Oxf. Gloss. 3. A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. Bartlett. 4. Etym: (more info) punctio a pricking, fr. pungere to
• PUNCHIN
  See PUNCHEON
• PIERCEL
  A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.
• PIERCE
  LL. pertusiare for pertusare, fr. L. pertundere, pertusum, to beat, push, bore through; per through + tundere to beat: cf. OF. pertuisier to pierce, F. pertuis a hole. Cf. Contuse, Parch, 1. To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed
• PUNCH
  A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc. Milk punch, a sort of punch
• PUNCTURED
  Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound. (more info) 1. Having the surface covered with minute indentations or dots.
• PIERCEABLE
  That may be pierced.
• PIERCED
  Penetrated; entered; perforated.
• TEREBRATE
  To perforate; to bore; to pierce. Sir T. Browne.
• TRANSPIERCE
  To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
• PRICKPUNCH
  A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
• AQUAPUNCTURE
  The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.
• IMPIERCE
  To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton.
• EMPIERCE
  To pierce; to impierce. Spenser.
• ENPIERCE
  To pierce. Shak.
• IMPERFORATE; IMPERFORATED
  Not perforated; having no opening or aperture. Sir J. Banks.
• ACUPUNCTURE
  Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically :
• ELECTRO-PUNCTURE
  An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.