one-berry
(ˈwʌnˌbɛrɪ)
a. Turner's name for Paris quadrifolia (Herb Paris); from the single berry, produced at the summit of the slender stem. (Used by later writers, but never vernacular.)
| 1548 Turner Names of Herbes 8 Pardalianches, whiche we may call in englishe Libardbayne or one bery. 1568 ― Herbal iii. 35 The herbe that I call one berrye hath a rounde stalke..and in the top of the stalke about a rounde black berrye come out foure smal leaves. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4), Herb Paris, an Herb otherwise called True Knot or One Berry, the Leaves whereof grow like a True-lovers Knot, with a Berry in the midst. 1789 G. White Selborne (1853) II. xl. 265, I found Paris quadrifolia herb Paris or one-berry. |
b. U.S. = checkerberry, Indian turnip s.v. Indian a. 4 b, wintergreen.
| 1877 Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 4) 319 Jack-in-the-Pulpit. (Arisæna triphyllum)... In Connecticut, it is called One-berry. 1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-Lore V. 100 Gaultheria procumbens, one-berry. 1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal II. 766 Mitchella repens... Partridgeberry, Checkerberry, Winter Clover, Deerberry, One-berry. |