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Tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
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papooseroot
Word definitions for papooseroot in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
papooseroot \papooseroot\, papoose root \papoose root\n. (Bot.) 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 ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally [syn: blue cohosh , blueberry root , papoose root , squawroot , squaw root , Caulophyllum thalictrioides , Caulophyllum thalictroides ...