pokeweed
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one of the poisonous purple-black fruits of the pokeberry plant, used to make ink and dye(= a substance used to change the colour of something):
Never, ever eat pokeberries!
They made ink out of pokeberries, roots, and bark.
Pokeberries are used as a vegetable dye - they give a nice red-purple colour.
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