button snakeroot
Americannoun
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any composite plant of the genus Liatris, having narrow, alternate leaves and spikelike heads of rose-purple flowers.
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an eryngo, Eryngium yuccifolium, of the southeastern U.S., having bristly leaves and whitish flowers.
Etymology
Origin of button snakeroot
An Americanism dating back to 1765–75
Example Sentences
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On one woodland road at Orange, New Jersey, the shades of asters, from the deepest violet-blue and purple to the palest lilac, are bewilderingly beautiful, while the splendid varieties of liatris, or button snakeroot, the rose-purple and white ox-eyed daisies and white asters, golden-rod, and the great open-eyed corn-flowers, or rudbeckias, are certainly beyond description.
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