cohosh
either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa(black cohosh, or squawroot ), of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides(blue cohosh, or papoose-root ), of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
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How to use cohosh in a sentence
She learned the uses and prices of the plant, and also made drawings of cohosh, moonseed and bloodroot.
The Harvester | Gene Stratton PorterView those polished cohosh-berries, white as drops of pearl!
America, Volume IV (of 6) | Joel CookI am also equally curious to know if anything eats the fruit of the red and white baneberry and the blue cohosh.
Ways of Nature | John BurroughsAnother flower of the summer woods and hillsides is the cohosh, with a stem from three to eight feet high.
Woodcraft | Alan DouglasYou should be able to design a number of pretty things from the cohosh leaves and berries, too.
The Harvester | Gene Stratton Porter
British Dictionary definitions for cohosh
/ (ˈkəʊhɒʃ, kəʊˈhɒʃ) /
any of several North American plants, such as the blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides: family Leonticaceae) and black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa: family Ranunculaceae)
Origin of cohosh
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