Herb Christopher Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
    baneberry; cohosh.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), an herb (Actæa spicata), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc.

Webster 1913