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Squawroot

Squawroot Meaning & Definition
Squawroot Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Squawroot?

[n] tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally

Synonyms | Synonyms for Squawroot: blue cohosh | blueberry root | Caulophyllum thalictrioides | Caulophyllum thalictroides | papoose root | papooseroot | squaw root

Related Terms | Find terms related to Squawroot:

See Also | bush | Caulophyllum | genus Caulophyllum | shrub

Squawroot In Webster's Dictionary

\Squaw"root`\, n. (Bot.) A scaly parasitic plant ({Conopholis Americana}) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also {cancer root}.

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