| button snakeroot | (n) coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots; southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake master, Syn. Eryngium aquaticum |
| seneca snakeroot | (n) eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of small white flowers and medicinal roots, Syn. senega snakeroot, Polygala senega, senga root, Seneka snakeroot, senega root |
| spinnaker | (n) a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind |
| virginia snakeroot | (n) birthwort of the eastern United States woodlands, Syn. Aristolochia serpentaria, Virginia serpentaria, Virginia serpentary |
| white snakeroot | (n) American herb having flat-topped clusters of small white flower heads; reputedly a cause of trembles and milk sickness; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium, Syn. Eupatorium rugosum, Ageratina altissima, white sanicle |
| black cohosh | (n) North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia, Syn. Cimicifuga racemosa, black snakeroot, rattle-top |
| blazing star | (n) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads, Syn. gay-feather, gayfeather, snakeroot, button snakeroot |
| canada ginger | (n) deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States, Syn. black snakeroot, Asarum canadense |
| rabbitweed | (n) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads, Syn. Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, turpentine weed, broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed |
| rattlesnake master | (n) coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite, Syn. rattlesnake's master, Eryngium yuccifolium, button snakeroot |
| sanicle | (n) a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers, Syn. snakeroot |
| Naker | n. (Zool.) Same as Nacre. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Naker | n. [ OE. nakere, F. nakaire, LL. nacara, Per. naqāret. ] A kind of kettledrum. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Snakeroot | n. (Bot.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ The Virginia snakeroot is Aristolochia Serpentaria; black snakeroot is Sanicula, esp. Sanicula Marilandica, also Cimicifuga racemosa; Seneca snakeroot is Polygala Senega; button snakeroot is Liatris, also Eryngium; white snakeroot is Eupatorium ageratoides. The name is also applied to some others besides these. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Spinnaker | n. (Naut.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind. [ 1913 Webster ] |
