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Sanguinaria   Listen
noun
Sanguinaria  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A genus of plants of the Poppy family. Note: Sanguinaria Canadensis, or bloodroot, is the only species. It has a perennial rootstock, which sends up a few roundish lobed leaves and solitary white blossoms in early spring. See Bloodroot.
2.
The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.





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Words linked to "Sanguinaria" :   puccoon, poppy family, bloodroot, Papaveraceae, redroot, family Papaveraceae, genus Sanguinaria, dilleniid dicot genus


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