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noun a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
originFrom an Algonquian word meaning rough, probably from Eastern Abenaki / Penobscot *kkwὰhas. Compare Massachusett kushki (“(it is) rough”). Compare English cocash.
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