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COHOSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
Synonyms:
baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cohosh" is a kind of...):
poisonous plant (a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism)
Meronyms (parts of "cohosh"):
baneberry (a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cohosh"):
Actaea rubra; red-berry; red baneberry; redberry; snakeberry (North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries)
Actaea alba; doll's eyes; white baneberry; white bead; white cohosh (North American herb with white poisonous berries)
Holonyms ("cohosh" is a member of...):
Actaea; genus Actaea (baneberry)
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