black snakeroot

Questions about black snakeroot

What does black snakeroot mean?

black snakeroot means "deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black snakeroot?

Close synonyms include Canada ginger, Asarum canadense, black cohosh, rattle-top, Cimicifuga racemosa. 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 black snakeroot a common word?

black snakeroot 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.