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cohosh

co·hosh

UK/kəˈhɒʃ/ uncommon

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a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries

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From an Algonquian word meaning rough, probably from Eastern Abenaki / Penobscot *kkwὰhas. Compare Massachusett kushki (“(it is) rough”). Compare English cocash.

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