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Definition of Seneca snakeroot
1. Noun. Eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of small white flowers and medicinal roots.
Generic synonyms: Milkwort
Terms within: Senega
Medical Definition of Seneca snakeroot
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Seneca Snakeroot
Literary usage of Seneca snakeroot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants: A Book of Valuable Information for by Arthur Robert Harding (1908)
"The flowering period of Seneca snakeroot is from May to June. ... Seneca snakeroot
belongs to the milkwort family (Polygalaceae). ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"Seneca snakeroot (officinal as senega) is polygala senega. ... the thick, hard,
and knotted rootstocks of which are the seneca snakeroot of the shops, ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"Seneca snakeroot (officinal as senega) is polygala ... bent and inflated, and in
some of the hothouse exotic species presents some Seneca snakeroot ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1907)
"The flowering j>eriod of Seneca snakeroot is from May to June. ... Л form of
Seneca snakeroot. growing mostly in the North- Central Stales and distinguished ..."
5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"A.Gray Seneca snakeroot Herbaceous perennial Scrubby, limestone ridge and moist
roadside slopes. Polygala verticillata L. var. verticillata Whorled milkwort ..."
6. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"A.Gray Seneca snakeroot Herbaceous perennial Scrubby, limestone ridge and moist
roadside slopes. Polygala verticillata L. var. verticillata Whorled milkwort ..."
7. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1895)
"iii pasturage they increased the milk of cows. The milkwort flowers all summer.
Seneca snakeroot. Senega, or seneca snakeroot, ..."
8. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"The entire root is used in dandelion, burdock, belladonna, yellow dock, lovage,
licorice ipecac, valerian and Seneca snakeroot ; the bark of the root only ..."
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