cancerweed

English

Etymology

From cancer +‎ weed (once thought to be a cure for cancer).

Noun

cancerweed (uncountable)

1. Lyreleaf sage or wild sage (Salvia lyrata).
2. Rattlesnake root (Prenanthes alba, now Nabulus spp.)

References

• “cancerweed”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cancerweed”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• cancerweed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia