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papooseroot
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun papooseroot has 1 sense
- papooseroot(n = noun.plant) blue cohosh, blueberry root, caulophyllum thalictrioides, caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot - tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; Array is a member of caulophyllum, genus caulophyllum
is a kind of bush, shrub
CIDE DICTIONARY
papooseroot, n.
A tall herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides ) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the Cohosh . See also Cohosh. [WordNet 1.5]
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