snakeroot

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SNA'KEROOT, noun [snake and root.] A plant, a species of birth-wort, growing in North Am merica the Aristolochia serpentaria. SNA'KE'SHEAD Iris, noun A plant with a lily shaped flower, or one leaf, shaped like an iris; the hermodactyl, or Iris tuberosa.
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