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Definition of Cohosh
1. Noun. A plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries.
Group relationships: Actaea, Genus Actaea
Terms within: Baneberry
Specialized synonyms: Actaea Rubra, Red Baneberry, Red-berry, Redberry, Snakeberry, Actaea Alba, Doll's Eyes, White Baneberry, White Bead, White Cohosh
Generic synonyms: Poisonous Plant
Definition of Cohosh
1. n. 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 Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family.
Definition of Cohosh
1. Noun. A perennial American herb (''Caulophyllum thalictroides''), whose rootstock is used in medicine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cohosh
1. a medicinal plant [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cohosh
Literary usage of Cohosh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic materia medica: Including the Standard Remedies of the Leading by Parke, Davis & Company (1888)
"Fluid Extract Black cohosh Compound.—Not miscible with water. ... Powdered Extract
Black cohosh.—One part equals five of the moisture with powdered Black ..."
2. Our Country Home: How We Transformed a Wisconsin Woodland by Frances Kinsley Hutchinson (1908)
"... with the assistance of the leaf and flower that these were blue cohosh berries.
In a sheltered hollow the very last of October I found a blue lobelia in ..."
3. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"cohosh, f and are called White cohosh or Red cohosh, according to the color of
the berries. In addition to this name the plants have acquired the name ..."
4. American Eclectic Obstetrics by John King (1855)
"Given in powder or decoction, Blue cohosh will frequently be found more desirable
than ... It is sometimes combined with Black cohosh for this purpose, ..."
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