Redroot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An eastern North American bog plant (Lachnanthes caroliana) having red roots and woolly yellow flowers.
  • n. A coarse cosmopolitan weed (Amaranthus retroflexus) having hairy leaves and stout terminal panicles with dense lateral spikes of green flowers.
  • n. See ceanothus.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several plants with red roots, such as the New Jersey tea, the gromwell, the bloodroot, and Lachnanthes tinctoria.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An American shrub, Ceanothus Americanus, the New Jersey tea.
  • n. A herbaceous plant, Lachnanthes tinctoria, of the Hæmodoraceæ, or bloodwort family.
  • n. The alkanet, Alkanna tinctoria.
  • n. One of the pigweeds, Amarantus retroflexus.
  • n. The bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadensis.
  • n. The field-gromwell, Lithospermum arvense.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    herbaceous plant    Herb   
    Cross Reference
    indian redroot   
    Variant
    tea   
     
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