Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant, Prenanthes serpentaria, also
P. alba and P. altissima, the first at least having some repute in North Carolina, etc., as a remedy for snake-bites. SeePrenanthes and cancer-weed.
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Examples
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These plants are sometimes called lion's-foot, rattlesnake-root, but the name of Bird-bell is the most pleasing, and was probably given them from their flowering about the time when the birds collect in flocks, preparatory to their flight southward, as though the blossoms rung a warning chime in the woods, to draw them together.
Rural Hours 1887
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This is a different thing from the Seneca rattlesnake-root; there's more cure in an ounce of this than in a pound of that.
A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878
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