BLACK SNAKEROOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black snakeroot mean? 

• BLACK SNAKEROOT (noun)
  The noun BLACK SNAKEROOT has 2 senses:

1. deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States

2. North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia

  Familiarity information: BLACK SNAKEROOT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK SNAKEROOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asarum canadense; black snakeroot; Canada ginger

Hypernyms ("black snakeroot" is a kind of...):

wild ginger (low-growing perennial herb with pungent gingery leaves and rhizomes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black cohosh; black snakeroot; Cimicifuga racemosa; rattle-top

Hypernyms ("black snakeroot" is a kind of...):

bugbane (a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects)

 Context examples 

Also called black snakeroot, bugbane, bugwort, and rattlesnake root.

(Black cohosh, NCI Dictionary)

Also called black cohosh, black snakeroot, bugbane, and rattlesnake root.

(Bugwort, NCI Dictionary)

Also called black cohosh, black snakeroot, bugwort, and rattlesnake root.

(Bugbane, NCI Dictionary)