crow corn

Questions about crow corn

What does crow corn mean?

crow corn means "any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic".

What is another word for crow corn?

Close synonyms include colicroot, colic root, star grass, unicorn root. 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 crow corn a common word?

crow corn 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.