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RATTLE-TOP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rattle-top mean?
• RATTLE-TOP (noun)
The noun RATTLE-TOP has 1 sense:
1. North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia
Familiarity information: RATTLE-TOP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("rattle-top" is a kind of...):
bugbane (a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects)
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