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Definition of Black snakeroot

1. Noun. Deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States.

2. Noun. North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Snakeroot

black salts black saltwort black sanctis black sanctus black sanctuses black santis black santos black scabbardfish black shale black sheep

black sickness black slug black slugs black smoker black snakeroot (current term) black spleenwort black spore black spot black spots black spruce

black squirrel black stork black stuff black sumac black swan black swans black tarantula black tea black tern

Literary usage of Black snakeroot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"In the drug trade it is known either as black snakeroot or Black Cohosh. The plant was one of the many reported cures for the bite of the rattlesnake, ..."

2. A Universal formulary: Containing the Methods of Preparing and Administering by Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1866)
"black snakeroot. This a the root of Cimicifuga ... black snakeroot, four ounces. Alcohol, one pint. f'o>t for fourteen days, and filter. ..."

3. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"In the drug trade it is known either as black snakeroot or Black Cohosh. The plant was one of the many reported cures for the bite of the rattlesnake, ..."

4. A Universal formulary: Containing the Methods of Preparing and Administering by Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1866)
"black snakeroot. This a the root of Cimicifuga ... black snakeroot, four ounces. Alcohol, one pint. f'o>t for fourteen days, and filter. ..."

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