Definitions for: Squawroot

[n] tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally

Webster (1913) Definition: Squaw"root`, n. (Bot.)
A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak
woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.

Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root

See Also: bush, Caulophyllum, genus Caulophyllum, shrub

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