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COHOSH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries

Synonyms:

baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher

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Nouns denoting plants

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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