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1 Common name of two small, elongated varieties of salt-water fish: (a) rock gunnel or tansy (Pholis gunnellus); (b) radiated shanny (Ulvaria subbifurcata) (1971 RLS 3, pp. 3, 4).
2 Cpd snakehead: swamp pink (Arethusa bulbosa) (1956 ROULEAU 37).
snakeroot: canker-root (Coptis groenlandica) (1893 N S Inst Sci viii, 363).
C 69-6 For ulcers on the tongue, use snakeroot. C 75-142 Snakeroot was also steeped for a cough medicine.
