Crossword-Solution: SNAKEWEED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Snakeweed | n. | A kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta). |
| Snakeweed | n. | The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot. |
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| Plant used as an astringent | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SNAKEWEED (5)
Round the body of the trees, planted some at their root, and some upon the different parts of the trunk, crept the withy, the snakeweed, the ivy, and the hop, and intermingled with them the jessamine and the honeysuckle, in the most unbounded profusion.
Another Polygonum, the great Bistort, or Snakeweed, and Adderswort, is a common wild plant in the northern parts of Great Britain, having bent or crooked roots, which are difficult to be extirpated, and are strongly astringent.
Another friend advised the Herb Cure, so I took strong decoctions of Chamomile, Pennyroyal, Peppermint, Rue, Tansy, Quassia, Horehound, Wormwood, Aconite, Belladonna, Hemlock, Nux Vomica, Lungwort, Liverwort, Moonwort, Sneezewort, and Snakeweed--altogether I took about 1700 quarts of these horrid decoctions--but I felt no better.
ADDER'S-WORT, a name of snakeweed or bistort (_Polyg[)o]num Bistorta_), from its supposed virtue in curing the bite of serpents.
Other Common Names--Asarum, wild ginger, Indian ginger, Vermont snakeroot, heart-snakeroot, southern snakeroot, black snakeroot, colt's-foot, snakeroot, black snakeweed, broadleaved asarabacca, false colt's-foot, cat's foot, colicroot.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).