button snakeroot

Questions about button snakeroot

What does button snakeroot mean?

button snakeroot means "coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for button snakeroot?

Close synonyms include rattlesnake master, rattlesnake's master, Eryngium yuccifolium, Eryngium aquaticum, blazing star. 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 button snakeroot a common word?

button snakeroot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.