COHOSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cohosh mean? 

• COHOSH (noun)
  The noun COHOSH has 1 sense:

1. a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries

  Familiarity information: COHOSH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COHOSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher

Hypernyms ("cohosh" is a kind of...):

poisonous plant (a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism)

Meronyms (parts of "cohosh"):

baneberry (a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cohosh"):

Actaea rubra; red-berry; red baneberry; redberry; snakeberry (North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries)

Actaea alba; doll's eyes; white baneberry; white bead; white cohosh (North American herb with white poisonous berries)

Holonyms ("cohosh" is a member of...):

Actaea; genus Actaea (baneberry)

 Context examples 

While the mechanism of action of black cohosh is not completely understood, it appears to act as a selective estrogen receptor modulator.

(Black cohosh, NCI Thesaurus)

Blue cohosh root contains a variety of compounds, including the alkaloid N-methylcytisine and the saponin caulosaponin.

(Blue Cohosh Root, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Black snakeroot, NCI Dictionary)

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

(Bugbane, NCI Dictionary)

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

(Bugwort, NCI Dictionary)