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Reputed rattler bite remedy [2001]
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snakeroot
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any member of the genus (taxlink Ageratina genus noshow=1) of perennials and rounded shrubs from the sunflower family, growing mainly in the warmer regions of the Americas.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers [syn: sanicle ] any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snakeroot \Snake"root`\, n. (Bot.) Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these. Note: The Virginia snakeroot ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Snakeroot may refer to different plant taxa that have been used as a folk remedy against snakebites: Ageratina – a genus with species native to the warm and temperate Americas Certain plants in the temperate Northern Hemisphere genus Eupatorium Asarum canadense ...
Usage examples of snakeroot.
I want to see if I can find some black snakeroot to bathe those feet in, too.
She poulticed them with more chamomile leaves and boiled his bandages in the horseweed and black snakeroot mixture, before hanging them out to dry on sticks by their fire.
You're supposed to grow poison oak and snakeroot and wolfsbane, not lilacs.
There are fish in a stream farther down we can gig, or else drop snakeroot in the water to bring them to the surface.