button snakeroot
noun
1
: blazing star sense 2a
2
: a perennial herb (Eryngium yuccifolium) of the carrot family native to the eastern half of the U.S. that has a basal rosette of bluish-green, fibrous, parallel-veined, swordlike leaves that may reach a length of 30 inches (76 centimeters) and small greenish-white flowers clustered in dense flower heads resembling thistle : rattlesnake master
Word History
First Known Use
1775, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- lead someone down the garden path
- lead someone up the garden path
- lead spar
- lead story
- lead subacetate
- lead sulfate
- lead sulfide
- lead tetraacetate
- lead the eye to
- lead the field
- lead the pack
- lead the pack/field
- lead the way
- lead the world
- lead the/one's eye to
- lead time
- lead to
- lead to believe
- lead to the altar
- lead track
- lead tree
- lead up the garden path
- lead up to
- lead water
- lead with