Definition of "poison-berry" []

• Any one of the various species of Cestrum; also, the boragi-naceous shrub Bourreria succulenta. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If the memory of dark, poison-berry eyes was to haunt me in nightmares, they did not come into the waking world."
• "She looked at me with her dark poison-berry eyes, icy and level and amused, and said, "I will bet _shegri_ with you, unless you fear me,"