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fishberry

fishberry noun: the poisonous fruit of Anamirta cocculus.

Noun

fishberry (plural fishberries)

  1. The poisonous fruit of Anamirta cocculus.

fishberry meaning in Tamil

fishberry in Tamil

மீன் கொல்லி

Forms of fishberry

pluralfishberries

Origin of fishberry

From fish + berry, from its use in catching fish by stupefying them with the poison of the dried fruit.

Questions about fishberry

What does fishberry mean?
Fishberry means the poisonous fruit of Anamirta cocculus.
What is fishberry in Tamil?
Fishberry in Tamil is மீன் கொல்லி. See Fishberry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fishberry?
Fishberry is a noun.
What is the plural of fishberry?
The plural of fishberry is fishberries.

Words near fishberry in the dictionary

  1. fishbellies
  2. fishbelly
  3. fishbelly girder
  4. fishbelly girders
  5. fishberries
  6. fishberry
  7. fishboat
  8. fishboats
  9. fishbolt
  10. fishbolts
  11. fishbone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fishberry (page history and authors); fishberry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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