Also 8 cohush. [See quot. 1866.] The name of several North American plants which have been used medicinally: Black c., Cimicifuga racemosa. Blue c., Caulophyllum thalictroides. Red c., Actæa spicata, var. rubra. White c., Actæa alba.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 189. Cohush (Actaea Spicata).
1851. S. Judd, Margaret, I. xvi. (1871), 123. She gathered the … red cohosh … and other flowers.
1866. Treas. Bot., 241. Caulophyllum.… The flowers … are succeeded by deep-blue globose berries…. These berries are called by the Indians Cohosh, and the plant is esteemed medicinal.
1880. Libr. Univ. Knowl., IV. 119. Cohosh, the Indian name of black snake-root.
