Crossword clues for bitterroot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bitterroot \Bit"ter*root`\, n. (Bot.) 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 Sp[ae]t'lum.
Wiktionary
a. (context usually used attributively English) Having bitter roots. n. 1 (taxlink Lewisia rediviva species noshow=1), a small, low, pink flower with a yellow center. 2 (taxlink Apocynum androsaemifolium species noshow=1), (vern: fly-trap dogbane).
WordNet
n. showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower [syn: Lewisia rediviva]
Wikipedia
Bitterroot, with the scientific name Lewisia rediviva, is a small perennial herb in the Portulacaceae or purslane family.
Usage examples of "bitterroot".
Doyle took the file with him, maybe headed up to Bitterroot to talk to Julie Albright, and on the way the psycho snowman serial killer mugged him.
While Sampson continued to bark out orders, she called dispatch, pulled all the patrols in tight around Lake Kittering and the game preserve, and then called Maggie Holland at Bitterroot and got her out of bed.
RlKKER HAD CALLED MAGOZZI BACK ON THE WAY to Bitterroot, giving him a quick update on the break in the fence and frozen cameras.
As the longtime manager of Bitterroot, she knew better than anyone that the complex was as safe as technology, caution, and human ingenuity could make it.
She has family at Bitterroot, hell, her great-grandmother and aunt founded the place, and this may not be the first time those people have killed to save a woman.
Lakesh, and in the years since the nuke-caust, the Indians had ascribed a sinister mythology to the Bitterroot Range.
There had been no Deathbird re-con flyovers, but he attributed that to the unpredictable down and updrafts swirling among the peaks of the Bitterroot Range.
They all took place near the Bitterroot Range, and each one was farther south than the one before it.
The incident took place in the Bitterroot Mountains, between Idaho and Montana.
It exuded the scent of bitterroot, and now, with the rotting smell in her nostrils, she entertained the irrational notion that it still lay in wait for her, that it knew that Annon still existed inside her.
Just then, she preferred not to think of the bitterroot beast that might be lurking in the right branch, but she did not think it wise to remain there for long.
The stench of bitterroot took on a third dimension, a sharp-toothed rodent crawling through shadow.
The next day, they drove to Idaho and east into Hamilton, Montana, near the Bitterroot National Forest.
But the piercing scent of bitterroot filled his nostrils, and he took a full-mouth swig.
After supper they drove into the Bitterroot Mountains, where Lute picked his careful way up a primitive road, his friend following in a pickup.