(n) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries, Syn. redberry, Actaea rubra, red-berry, snakeberry
n. (Bot.) A genus (Actæa) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceæ, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous. [ 1913 Webster ]