snakeroot
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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| 1. | any of various North American plants, such as Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) and Eupatorium urticaefolium (white snakeroot), the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite |
| 2. | the rhizome or root of any such plant |
| 3. | bistort another name for bistort |
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Example sentences
By definition, milk sickness is poisoning by milk from cows that have eaten white snakeroot.
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