Cohosh

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  papooseroot \papooseroot\, papoose root \papoose root\n. (Bot.)
     A tall herb ({Caulophyllum thalictroides}) of eastern North
     America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick
     knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the {Cohosh}. See
     also {Cohosh}.
  


     Syn: blue cohosh, blueberry root, papoose root, squawroot,
          squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, {Caulophyllum
          thalictroides}.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cohosh \Co"hosh\, n. (Bot.)
     A perennial American herb ({Caulophyllum thalictroides}),
     whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called {pappoose
     root}. The name is sometimes also given to the {Cimicifuga
     racemosa}, and to two species of {Act[ae]a}, plants of the
     Crowfoot family.
     [1913 Webster] Cohune

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cohosh
       n : a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
           [syn: {baneberry}, {herb Christopher}]