cohosh : Idioms & Phrases


black cohosh

  • noun North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia
    black snakeroot; Cimicifuga racemosa; rattle-top.
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blue cohosh

  • noun tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
    squaw root; blueberry root; papooseroot; Caulophyllum thalictrioides; papoose root; squawroot; Caulophyllum thalictroides.
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summer cohosh

  • noun bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers
    American bugbane; Cimicifuga americana.
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white cohosh

  • noun North American herb with white poisonous berries
    white bead; white baneberry; Actaea alba; doll's eyes.
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