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BUTTON SNAKEROOT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

Synonyms:

blazing star; button snakeroot; gay-feather; gayfeather; snakeroot

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("button snakeroot" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "button snakeroot"):

dotted gayfeather; Liatris punctata (herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico)

dense blazing star; Liatris pycnostachya (perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers)

Holonyms ("button snakeroot" is a member of...):

genus Liatris; Liatris (genus of perennial North American herbs with aromatic usually cormous roots)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots; southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake master

Synonyms:

button snakeroot; Eryngium aquaticum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("button snakeroot" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("button snakeroot" is a member of...):

Eryngium; genus Eryngium (large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite

Synonyms:

button snakeroot; Eryngium yuccifolium; rattlesnake's master; rattlesnake master

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("button snakeroot" is a kind of...):

perennial ((botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more)

Holonyms ("button snakeroot" is a member of...):

Eryngium; genus Eryngium (large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution)

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