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Breadroot

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Noun

1. breadroot, indian breadroot, pomme blanche, pomme de prairie, psoralea esculenta

densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Breadroot

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noun
a leguminous plant, Psoralea esculenta, of central North America, having an edible starchy root
. Also called: prairie turnip

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Breadroot

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noun
1. 
a low-growing plant (Psoralea esculenta) of the pea family, with blue flowers, common on the prairies of W North America
2. 
its edible starchy root

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Breadroot

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n.
Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Pediomelum in the pea family, especially P. esculentum (syn. Psoralea esculenta) of central North America, having a tuberous, starchy root that was an important food for many Native Americans.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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