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redroot
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun redroot has 1 sense
- redroot(n = noun.plant) bloodroot, puccoon, sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort - perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant; Array is a member of genus sanguinaria, sanguinaria
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
CIDE DICTIONARY
redroot, n.
A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida. [1913 Webster]
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