noun
- Plural of cohosh; any of several North American plants of the buttercup or lily family, especially black cohosh or blue cohosh, used in traditional medicine.
Usage: Usually used in plural form; Botanical/medicinal context
Examples
- Black cohoshes have been used in herbal remedies for centuries.
- The herbalist recommended cohoshes for certain wellness purposes.
- Native Americans traditionally harvested cohoshes from forest floors.
- Several cohoshes grow naturally in the eastern United States.
- The store sells dried cohoshes in its supplement section.