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]