Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants, such as bistort, reputed to cure snakebite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bistort, Polygonum Bistorta, a perennial herb of the northern parts of both hemispheres. Its root is a powerful astringent, sometimes employed in medicine. Also
adder's-wort and snakewort. Seebistort . - noun The Virginia snakeroot. See
snakeroot . - noun Vaguely, any of the weedy plants among which snakes are supposed to abound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of knotweed (
Polygonum Bistorta ). - noun The Virginia snakeroot. See
snakeroot .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various, unrelated
plants reputed to curesnakebite . - noun A
poisonous American plant of the genus Gutierrezia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
Etymologies
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Examples
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The children have learned to identify wild edible and medicinal plants in our bioregion, helping to harvest prickly pear and banana yucca fruit each season, as well as to appreciate the healing benefits of juniper berries, snakeweed, mallow, horehound, and more.
Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011
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The children have learned to identify wild edible and medicinal plants in our bioregion, helping to harvest prickly pear and banana yucca fruit each season, as well as to appreciate the healing benefits of juniper berries, snakeweed, mallow, horehound, and more.
Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011
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Beneath fields of tamarisk and prickly pear, Indian ricegrass, snakeweed, and Russian thistle, a plume of contaminated water stretched for a subterranean mile.3 The stream, half again as wide as it was long, contained about 4.5 million polluted gallons from the ore itself and the various chemicals that VCA poured through it to draw the uranium out.
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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Round the body of the trees, planted some at their root, and some upon the different parts of the trunk, crept the withy, the snakeweed, the ivy, and the hop, and intermingled with them the jessamine and the honeysuckle, in the most unbounded profusion.
Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796
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The pair gave the yellow flowering plant the scientific name Gutierrezia elegans and a common name Lone Mesa snakeweed.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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The pair gave the yellow flowering plant the scientific name Gutierrezia elegans and a common name Lone Mesa snakeweed.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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The pair gave the yellow flowering plant the scientific name Gutierrezia elegans and a common name Lone Mesa snakeweed.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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The pair gave the yellow flowering plant the scientific name Gutierrezia elegans and a common name Lone Mesa snakeweed.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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The plant's scientific name then became "Gutierrezia elegans," commonly known as Lone Mesa snakeweed.
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Schneider said he and his wife, Betty, have found 700 of the Lone Mesa snakeweed plants in a portion of the park, a small number in comparison to other well-known species.
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