# poke salad

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌpoʊk ˈsæləd/

## Definitions
1. A food made from boiled pokeweed leaves, which are poisonous unless cooked properly.
2. Pokeweed, the leafy plant used to make such a dish.

## Etymology
poke (“pokeweed”) + salad or sallet. “Poke salad” and “poke sallet” mean the same thing—carefully boiled pokeweed. Uncooked pokeweed is poisonous. Given that “salad” connotes “raw,” many speakers favor the original “sallet” which connotes “cooked greens.”

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/poke-salad