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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries [syn: baneberry, cohosh, herb Christopher]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Eastern Abenaki kk^w?has Date: 1789 any of several North American medicinal or poisonous plants: as a. black cohosh b. blue cohosh c. baneberry

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cohosh Co"hosh, n. (Bot.) A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Act[ae]a, plants of the Crowfoot family.