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bitterness |
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bitterroot
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bitterroot
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bitterroot has 1 sense
- bitterroot(n = noun.plant) lewisia rediviva - showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower; Array is a kind of wild flower, wildflower
is a member of genus lewisia, lewisia
CIDE DICTIONARY
bitterroot, n.
A plant (Lewisia rediviva ) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum. [1913 Webster]
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