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Snakeroot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A plant, a species of birth-wort, growing in North Am merica the Aristolochia serpentaria.

2. A plant with a lily shaped flower, or one leaf, shaped like an iris; the hermodactyl, or Iris tuberosa.

Snakeroot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these.