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Snakeroot  n.  (Bot.) Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these. Note: The Virginia snakeroot is Aristolochia Serpentaria; black snakeroot is Sanicula, esp. Sanicula Marilandica, also Cimicifuga racemosa; Seneca snakeroot is Polygala Senega; button snakeroot is Liatris, also Eryngium; white snakeroot is Eupatorium ageratoides. The name is also applied to some others besides these.






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"Snakeroot" Quotes from Famous Books



... western Virginia, and Ohio, pack-horses long were used, and a pretty picture is drawn by Doddridge and many other local historians of the trains of these horses with their gay collars and stuffed bells, as, laden with furs, ginseng, and snakeroot, they filed down the mountain roads to the towns, and came home laden with salt, nails, tea, pewter plates, etc. At night the horses were hobbled, and the clappers of their bells were loosened; the ringing prevented the horses being lost. The animals started on their journey ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle



Words linked to "Snakeroot" :   genus Sanicula, senega snakeroot, European sanicle, broom snakeroot, genus Liatris, Liatris punctata, herb, black snakeroot, dense blazing star, footsteps-of-spring, blazing star, white snakeroot, Sanicula bipinnatifida, Liatris, button snakeroot, sanicle, dotted gayfeather, Seneka snakeroot, Sanicula, gayfeather, Sanicula arctopoides, wildflower, Liatris pycnostachya, Sanicula Europaea, herbaceous plant



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