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Redroot

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Noun

1. bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, 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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Redroot

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noun
1. 
a bog plant, Lachnanthes tinctoria, of E North America, having woolly yellow flowers and roots that yield a red dye: family Haemodoraceae
2.  another name for pigweed (sense 1)

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Redroot

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noun
any of various plants with red roots, as
a. 
a small shrub (genus Ceanothus) of the buckthorn family
b. 
a marsh plant (Lachnanthes tinctoria) of the bloodwort family, with sword-shaped leaves and flat clusters of small, woolly, yellow flowers, found along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
c. 
pigweed (sense 1)
d. 
bloodroot

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

Redroot

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n.
1. An eastern North American bog plant (Lachnanthes caroliana) having red roots and woolly yellow flowers.
2. A coarse cosmopolitan weed (Amaranthus retroflexus) having hairy leaves and stout terminal panicles with dense lateral spikes of green flowers.
3. See New Jersey tea.

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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