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Definition of Squawroot
1. Noun. Tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally.
Group relationships: Caulophyllum, Genus Caulophyllum
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Definition of Squawroot
1. n. A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.
Definition of Squawroot
1. Noun. Either of two, unrelated plants from eastern North America ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Squawroot
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Squawroot
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Squawroot
Literary usage of Squawroot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"squawroot ... The blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides, is in rare instances
also called squawroot. ..."
2. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"As early as 1785, Schoepf merely mentioned the plant, but its medical uses were
first recorded by Barton, in 1801, who called it squawroot, and writes: "Our ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... rich- weed and squawroot. It grows in the shaded woodlands from Maine to
Wisconsin and south to Georgia and west to Missouri. The Indians long regarded ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"LUCY LW WILSON: Observations on the American squawroot (Conopholis Americana
Wallr.}. An exhaustive study of the vegetative and reproductive parts has been ..."
5. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"... and squawroot (Conopholis). The curious family of the bladderworts is closely
related to the ..."
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