snake·weed

(snāk′wēd′)

Any of various plants, such as bistort, reputed to cure snakebite.

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snakeweed

(ˈsneɪkˌwiːd)

(Plants) another name for bistort²

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bis•tort

(ˈbɪs tɔrt)

n.

1. Also called snakeweed. a European plant, Polygonum bistorta, of the buckwheat family, having a twisted root, which is sometimes used as an astringent.

2. any of several related plants, as P. viviparum.

[1570–80; < Medieval Latin bistorta twice twisted. See bis, tort]

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Noun

snakeweed - low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads

broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, turpentine weed

genus Gutierrezia, Gutierrezia - sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America

matchbush, matchweed - any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches

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