Found 2 items, similar to Cohosh.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cohosh
cohosh
n : a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
[syn:
baneberry,
herb Christopher]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cohosh
papooseroot
\papooseroot\, papoose root
\papoose root\n. (Bot.)
A tall herb (
Caulophyllum thalictroides) of eastern North
America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick
knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the
Cohosh. See
also
Cohosh.
Syn: blue cohosh, blueberry root, papoose root, squawroot,
squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides,
Caulophyllum thalictroides
.
[WordNet 1.5]
Cohosh
\Co"hosh\, n. (Bot.)
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
Act[ae]a, plants of the
Crowfoot family.
[1913 Webster]