snakeroot : Idioms & Phrases

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black snakeroot

  • noun deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States
    Canada ginger; Asarum canadense.
  • noun North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia
    black cohosh; Cimicifuga racemosa; rattle-top.
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broom snakeroot

  • noun low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
    Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbit-weed; rabbitweed; snakeweed; turpentine weed; broom snakeweed.
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Button snakeroot

  • noun coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite
    rattlesnake's master; Eryngium yuccifolium; rattlesnake master.
  • noun coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots; southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake master
    Eryngium aquaticum.
  • noun any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
    blazing star; snakeroot; gayfeather; gay-feather.
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  • . (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads.
Webster 1913

Seneca root, ∨ Seneca snakeroot

  • (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth (Polygala Senega) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. Written also Senega root, and Seneka root.
Webster 1913

seneca snakeroot

  • noun eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of small white flowers and medicinal roots
    senega snakeroot; Polygala senega; Seneca snakeroot; senega root; senga root.
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senega snakeroot

  • noun eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of small white flowers and medicinal roots
    senega snakeroot; Polygala senega; Seneca snakeroot; senega root; senga root.
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seneka snakeroot

  • noun eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of small white flowers and medicinal roots
    senega snakeroot; Polygala senega; Seneca snakeroot; senega root; senga root.
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virginia snakeroot

  • noun birthwort of the eastern United States woodlands
    Virginia serpentaria; Virginia serpentary; Aristolochia serpentaria.
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white snakeroot

  • noun American herb having flat-topped clusters of small white flower heads; reputedly a cause of trembles and milk sickness; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium
    white sanicle; Eupatorium rugosum; Ageratina altissima.
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