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Texas snakeroot

noun

Medical Definition of TEXAS SNAKEROOT

:  a plant of the genus Aristolochia (A. reticulata) that occurs in the southwestern United States and resembles the Virginia snakeroot in its medicinal properties—see serpentaria

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