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BUTTON SNAKEROOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
Synonyms:
blazing star; button snakeroot; gay-feather; gayfeather; snakeroot
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("button snakeroot" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "button snakeroot"):
dotted gayfeather; Liatris punctata (herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico)
dense blazing star; Liatris pycnostachya (perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers)
Holonyms ("button snakeroot" is a member of...):
genus Liatris; Liatris (genus of perennial North American herbs with aromatic usually cormous roots)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots; southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake master
Synonyms:
button snakeroot; Eryngium aquaticum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("button snakeroot" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Holonyms ("button snakeroot" is a member of...):
Eryngium; genus Eryngium (large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite
Synonyms:
button snakeroot; Eryngium yuccifolium; rattlesnake's master; rattlesnake master
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("button snakeroot" is a kind of...):
perennial ((botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more)
Holonyms ("button snakeroot" is a member of...):
Eryngium; genus Eryngium (large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution)
