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

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

sanicle; snakeroot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("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)

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

footsteps-of-spring; Sanicula arctopoides (sanicle of northwestern United States and British Columbia having yellow flowers)

purple sanicle; Sanicula bipinnatifida (sanicle of northwestern United States and British Columbia having yellow or red or purple flowers)

European sanicle; Sanicula Europaea (sanicle of Europe and Asia having white to pale pink flowers)

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

genus Sanicula; Sanicula (chiefly American herbs: sanicle)

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