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button snakeroot

noun

Definition of button snakeroot

1 : blazing star sense 2a
2 : a perennial herb (Eryngium yuccifolium) of the carrot family native to the eastern half of the U.S. that has a basal rosette of bluish-green, fibrous, parallel-veined, swordlike leaves that may reach a length of 30 inches (76 centimeters) and small greenish-white flowers clustered in dense flower heads resembling thistle : rattlesnake master

First Known Use of button snakeroot

1775, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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