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black cohosh

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black cohosh
n.
An eastern North American perennial herb (Cimicifuga racemosa) having large, pinnately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers. Also called black snakeroot.
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Noun1.black cohoshblack cohosh - North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia
Cimicifuga racemosa, rattle-top, black snakeroot
bugbane - a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects


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