tetterwort

WORDNET DICTIONARY

tetterwort(n = noun.plant) bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, sanguinaria canadensis - 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

tetterwort, n.

A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot. [1913 Webster]

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