pigeonberry

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The pokeweed. See garget, 5, and Phytolacca.
2. n. Locally in California, the cascara sagrada, Rhamnus Purshiana. Its fruit is eaten by wild pigeons, to whose flesh it imparts a bitter flavor.
3. n. Locally elsewhere in North America: the dwarf raspberry, Rubus Americanus;
4. n. the northwestern service-berry, Amelanchier alnifolia;
5. n. the bristly sarsaparilla, Aralia hispida;
6. n. the alternate-leafed dogwood, Cornus alternifolia;
7. n. the partridge-berry, Mitchella repens.