snakeroot
IPA: snˈeɪkrˈut
noun
- Any member of the genus Ageratina of perennials and rounded shrubs from the sunflower family, growing mainly in the warmer regions of the Americas.
- Any of various plants of other genera, including Eupatorium, Asarum canadense (Canadian snakeroot), Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot), Eryngium cuneifolium, Plantago major, Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot), and Rauvolfia serpentina (Indian snakeroot).
- Bistorta officinalis (common bistort)
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Examples of "snakeroot" in Sentences
- Snakeroot is still used today in making medicines.
- Also goes by the name snakeroot and Indian ginger.
- The common names usually include the label sanicle or black snakeroot.
- It is known by the common names Shasta snakeroot and Shasta eupatorium.
- The distillate from the ground root is known as Canadian snakeroot oil.
- That snakeroot self sowed in the self sowing garden here so I let it grow.
- There are natives in our midst, including the white snakeroot, Ageratina altissima…
- The snakeroot gets really large, but I let a couple grow to maturity for the fall presence.
- Flora can languish or become dormant, like the shade-tolerant perennial snakeroot (Cimicifuga racemosa).
- (This is a plant that, the story goes, killed the mother of Abraham Lincoln after she drank milk from a cow that had consumed the snakeroot.)
- Keep up a perspiration till the pain is relieved by giving a teaspoonful of compound tincture of Virginia snakeroot; also a warm infusion of pleurisy root.
- I remembered the names of boneset and snakeroot, both in bloom right now, and knew them one from the other, and maybe because of that I found this other road, and wandered quite away from everything.
- The Aronia melancarpa ‘Viking’ black berries are still hanging on while the white snakeroot, Ageratina altissima climbs to the sky just to the left of the ironweed, before unclasping its buds for insect delights.
- Numerous botanicals indigenous to the Colonies were widely employed in medicine of the period, and certain ones such as snakeroot (seneka), which was widely found growing in Virginia, would have been very scarce had not an adequate supply been immediately at hand.
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