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snakeroot
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Snakeroot
(gcide) | Snakeroot \Snake"root`\, n. (Bot.)
Any one of several plants of different genera and species,
most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be
efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the
roots of any of these.
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Note: The Virginia snakeroot is Aristolochia Serpentaria;
black snakeroot is Sanicula, esp. {Sanicula
Marilandica}, also Cimicifuga racemosa; Seneca
snakeroot is Polygala Senega; button snakeroot is
Liatris, also Eryngium; white snakeroot is
Eupatorium ageratoides. The name is also applied to
some others besides these.
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snakeroot
(wn) | snakeroot
n 1: a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound
leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by
bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers [syn:
sanicle, snakeroot]
2: any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris
having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
[syn: blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, {gay-
feather}, snakeroot] |
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seneca snakeroot
(encz) | Seneca snakeroot, |
senega snakeroot
(encz) | senega snakeroot, n: |
snakeroot
(encz) | snakeroot, n: |
virginia snakeroot
(encz) | Virginia snakeroot, |
white snakeroot
(encz) | white snakeroot, n: |
Button snakeroot
(gcide) | Button \But"ton\, n. [OE. boton, botoun, F. bouton button, bud,
prop. something pushing out, fr. bouter to push. See Butt
an end.]
1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
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2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten
together the different parts of dress, by being attached
to one part, and passing through a slit, called a
buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
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3. A bud; a germ of a plant. --Shak.
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4. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated,
turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a
door.
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5. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a
crucible, after fusion.
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Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it
through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves.
Button shell (Zool.), a small, univalve marine shell of the
genus Rotella.
Button snakeroot. (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.
Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus),
furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West
Indies.
To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to
weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.
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Seneca snakeroot
(gcide) | Senecas \Sen"e*cas\, n. pl.; sing. Seneca. (Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western
New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike
of the Five Nations.
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Seneca grass(Bot.), holy grass. See under Holy.
Seneca eil, petroleum or naphtha.
Seneca root, or 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.]
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black snakeroot
(wn) | black snakeroot
n 1: deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and
central United States [syn: Canada ginger, {black
snakeroot}, Asarum canadense]
2: North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to
Wisconsin and south to Georgia [syn: black cohosh, {black
snakeroot}, rattle-top, Cimicifuga racemosa] |
broom snakeroot
(wn) | broom snakeroot
n 1: low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States
having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and
hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads [syn: rabbitweed,
rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, {broom
snakeroot}, turpentine weed, Gutierrezia sarothrae] |
button snakeroot
(wn) | button snakeroot
n 1: coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to
cure rattlesnake bite [syn: rattlesnake master,
rattlesnake's master, button snakeroot, {Eryngium
yuccifolium}]
2: coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots;
southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake
master [syn: button snakeroot, Eryngium aquaticum]
3: any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris
having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
[syn: blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, {gay-
feather}, snakeroot] |
seneca snakeroot
(wn) | Seneca snakeroot
n 1: eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of
small white flowers and medicinal roots [syn: {Seneca
snakeroot}, Seneka snakeroot, senga root, {senega
root}, senega snakeroot, Polygala senega] |
senega snakeroot
(wn) | senega snakeroot
n 1: eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of
small white flowers and medicinal roots [syn: {Seneca
snakeroot}, Seneka snakeroot, senga root, {senega
root}, senega snakeroot, Polygala senega] |
seneka snakeroot
(wn) | Seneka snakeroot
n 1: eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of
small white flowers and medicinal roots [syn: {Seneca
snakeroot}, Seneka snakeroot, senga root, {senega
root}, senega snakeroot, Polygala senega] |
snakeroot
(wn) | snakeroot
n 1: a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound
leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by
bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers [syn:
sanicle, snakeroot]
2: any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris
having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
[syn: blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, {gay-
feather}, snakeroot] |
virginia snakeroot
(wn) | Virginia snakeroot
n 1: birthwort of the eastern United States woodlands [syn:
Virginia snakeroot, Virginia serpentaria, {Virginia
serpentary}, Aristolochia serpentaria] |
white snakeroot
(wn) | white snakeroot
n 1: American herb having flat-topped clusters of small white
flower heads; reputedly a cause of trembles and milk
sickness; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium [syn: {white
snakeroot}, white sanicle, Ageratina altissima,
Eupatorium rugosum] |
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