Cohosh

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

cohosh
    n 1: a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
         [syn: {baneberry}, {cohosh}, {herb Christopher}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

papooseroot \papooseroot\, papoose root \papoose root\n. (Bot.)
   A tall herb ({Caulophyllum thalictroides}) of eastern North
   America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick
   knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the {Cohosh}. See
   also {Cohosh}.

   Syn: blue cohosh, blueberry root, papoose root, squawroot,
        squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, {Caulophyllum
        thalictroides}.
        [WordNet 1.5]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cohosh \Co"hosh\, n. (Bot.)
   A perennial American herb ({Caulophyllum thalictroides}),
   whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called {pappoose
   root}. The name is sometimes also given to the {Cimicifuga
   racemosa}, and to two species of {Act[ae]a}, plants of the
   Crowfoot family.
   [1913 Webster] Cohune

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