polygala senega

Questions about polygala senega

What does polygala senega mean?

polygala senega means "eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of small white flowers and medicinal roots".

What is another word for polygala senega?

Close synonyms include Seneca snakeroot, Seneka snakeroot, senga root, senega root, senega snakeroot. 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 polygala senega a common word?

polygala senega 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.