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Seneca root
Senecas Sen"e*cas, n. pl.; sing. Seneca. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations. Seneca grass(Bot.), holy grass. See under Holy. Seneca eil, petroleum or naphtha. Seneca root, or Seneca snakeroot (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth (Polygala Senega) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also Senega root, and Seneka root.]

Meaning of Seneca root from wikipedia

- Seneca (/ˈsɛnəkə/; in Seneca, Onöndowaʼga꞉ʼ Gawë꞉noʼ, or Onötowáʼka꞉) is the language of the Seneca people, one of the Six Nations of the Hodinöhsö꞉niʼ...
- names include Seneca snakeroot, senega snakeroot, senegaroot, rattlesnake root, and mountain flax. Its species name honors the Seneca people, a Native...
- parti****ted in trade and other economic activities. Women picked berries and Seneca root to sell to settlers in addition to use at home, while men cut and sold...
- not viable, or if they are, take two to three years to develop a robust root system. In North America Hierochloe odorata occurs in southern Canada, northern...
- 2013a, p. 108. Seneca, Hercules Furens 782–821 (pp. 110–115); Ogden 2013b, pp. 66–68. Seneca, Hercules Furens 782–791 (pp. 110–113). Seneca, Hercules Furens...
- but have value as "material for virtue to act upon". Many Stoics—such as Seneca and Epictetus—emphasized that because "virtue is sufficient for happiness"...
- used in Latin transliteration of the Seneca language as the equivalent of the ampersand; it abbreviates the Seneca word koh. Ø (or more properly, the similar...
- Eryngium cuneifoliumSnakeroot Plantago majorSnakeroot Polygala senegaSeneca snakeroot Rauvolfia serpentinaIndian snakeroot Black snakeroot (disambiguation)...
- Benfield (1906). Dictionary of Quotations (classical). The Macmillan Co. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (1900). Minor Dialogs: Together with the Dialog On Clemency...
- Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 23 [= Hesiod, **** Ehoiai fr. 16]. Seneca, Medea 56 ff Serv. Ecl. 8.30 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 33.67 Vatican Scholiast...