ague grass

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   colicroot having a scurfy or granuliferous perianth and white flowers; southeastern United States

   Synonymsague rootAletris farinosa

   Broadercolicroot

   Part ofAletris

Questions about ague grass

What does ague grass mean?

ague grass means "colicroot having a scurfy or granuliferous perianth and white flowers; southeastern United States".

What is another word for ague grass?

Close synonyms include ague root, Aletris farinosa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ague grass a common word?

ague grass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.