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SUMMER COHOSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does summer cohosh mean?
• SUMMER COHOSH (noun)
The noun SUMMER COHOSH has 1 sense:
1. bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers
Familiarity information: SUMMER COHOSH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American bugbane; Cimicifuga americana; summer cohosh
Hypernyms ("summer cohosh" is a kind of...):
bugbane (a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects)
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