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Bloodroot

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort.






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"Bloodroot" Quotes from Famous Books



... as rich in flowers as the valley of the Hudson. Yet there are many. Early in April there is one hillside near us which glows like a tender flame with the white of the bloodroot. About the same time we find the shy mayflower, the trailing arbutus; and although we rarely pick wild flowers, one member of the household always plucks a little bunch of mayflowers to send to a friend working in Panama, whose soul hungers for the Northern spring. Then ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt



Words linked to "Bloodroot" :   tetterwort, herb, redroot, genus Sanguinaria, Sanguinaria canadensis, herbaceous plant, Sanguinaria



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