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Definition of Cohoshes
1. cohosh [n] - See also: cohosh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cohoshes
Literary usage of Cohoshes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemistry and Analysis of Drugs and Medicines by Henry Corbin Fuller (1920)
"Viburnum and the cohoshes have been given separate consideration. Senecio
aureus (Composite), the Life-root or Swamp Squaw-weed, is the species of Senecio ..."
2. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"... and I always look with glad suspicion at a knoll covered with ferns, cohoshes,
and trilliums, expecting to see a clump of this plant among them. ..."
3. The Story of Drugs: A Popular Exposition of Their Origin, Preparation and by Henry Corbin Fuller (1922)
"As the weeks go by, the two cohoshes, blue and black, develop their bushy growth.
The latter sends up a long spike, often as high as a man, topped with a ..."
4. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"The drug loses three-fourths of its weight in drying. History and Constituents.—The
cohoshes have received their name from the aborigines, who employed them ..."
5. St. Louis Clinical Review: A Monthly Journal of Homoeopathic Medicine and (1885)
"... of prolon^d gestation and \\iv «il'i'i»K\'i» thought that tho use of the
cohoshes p»«»«l»wd Ont ^OV«1 M ..."
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