"snakeroot" in the noun sense
1. sanicle, snakeroot
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
2. blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, gay-feather, snakeroot
any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
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