Cohosh

  

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Cohosh

Definition: Cohosh

Cohosh

Noun

1. A plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Cohosh

Synonyms: baneberry (n), herb Christopher (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cohosh

English words defined with "cohosh": Caulophyllumgenus Caulophyllum. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cohosh

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Health

NIA is also conducting research on phytoestrogens and black cohosh. (references)

Soy, wild yams, and herbs such as black cohosh, dong quai, and valerian root have been suggested to relieve the symptoms of menopause. (references)

Today some women use soy and herbal products such as black cohosh, wild yams, dong quai, and valerian root which claim to relieve menopausal symptoms like hot flashes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Cohosh

Expressions using "cohosh": black cohosh BLUE COHOSH summer cohosh white cohosh. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cohosh

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

black cohosh

1,053

black cohosh tea

4

blue cohosh

71

blue cohosh induce labor

4

black cohosh root

37

blue cohosh inducing labor

4

black cohosh side effects

35

black cohosh information

4

cohosh

31

black cohosh tincture

3

black cohosh menopause

18

blue cohosh pregnancy

3

black blue cohosh

14

black cohosh make tincture

3

black cohosh herb

12

black cohosh soy

3

black cohosh for labor

12

black cohosh fertility

2

black cohosh and pregnancy

9

cohosh labor

2

black cohosh induction labor

8

black cimicifuga cohosh cream estrogen extract racemosa

2

black cohosh flash hot

7

black cohosh plant

2

blue cohosh labor

7

black cohosh drug interaction

2

black cohosh extract

7

blue cohosh induction labor

2

black cohosh induce labor

7

black breast cohosh make swell will woman

2

black cohosh effects herb side

6

black blue cohosh induce labor

2

black cohosh dosage

6

black cohosh picture

2

black cohosh inducing labor

5

abortion black cohosh

2

benefit black cohosh

5

black body cohosh effect human its

2

black cohosh use

4

black cohosh root effects side

2

black cohosh gain weight

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cohosh

Language Translations for "cohosh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

sort slangerod (black cohosh, bugbane, snakeroot). (various references)

   

French

  

cimifugue (black cohosh), cimicaire (black cohosh), chasse-punaise (black cohosh). (various references)

   

German

  

schwarzes Wanzenkraut (black cohosh, bugbane, snakeroot). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κιμιτσιφούγκα η βοτρυοειδής (black cohosh, bugbane, snakeroot), φυγόκορις (black cohosh, bugbane, snakeroot). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh, bugbane, snakeroot). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ohoshcay

   

Portuguese

  

cimífuga (black cohosh, bugbane, snakeroot). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cimicifuga (black cohosh, bugbane, snakeroot), hierba sonajero (black cohosh, bugbane, snakeroot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Cohosh

Derivations

Words beginning with "cohosh": cohoshes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cohosh

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-h-o-o-s"

-1 letter: cohos, hooch.

-2 letters: coho, coos, cosh, oohs, shoo.

-3 letters: coo, cos, oho, ohs, ooh, shh.

-4 letters: ho, oh, os, sh, so.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-h-o-o-s"
 

+1 letter: honchos, hooches.

 

+2 letters: cohoshes, hockshop, hootches.

 

+3 letters: chophouse, chowchows, hockshops, hopscotch, hotchpots.

 

+4 letters: childhoods, chokeholds, chophouses, chowhounds, hollyhocks, homeschool, phosphoric, toothaches, touchholes.

 

+5 letters: autochthons, chocoholics, homeschools, hopscotched, hopscotches, philosophic, schoolchild, schoolhouse.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cohosh


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 68 6F 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01101000 01101111 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#104 &#111 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0068 006F 0073 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378174818574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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