cohosh

3 definitions found

cohosh - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

  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

cohosh - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cohosh
      n 1: a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
           [syn: baneberry, cohosh, herb Christopher]