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cohosh
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cohosh has 1 sense
- cohosh(n = noun.plant) baneberry, herb christopher - a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries; Array is a member of actaea, genus actaea
has parts: baneberry
has particulars: actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, redberry, snakeberry, actaea alba, doll's eyes, white baneberry, white bead, white cohosh
is a kind of poisonous plant
CIDE DICTIONARY
cohosh, n.
A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides ), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root . The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa , and to two species of Actæa , plants of the Crowfoot family. [1913 Webster]
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