papoose root — noun tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally • Syn: ↑blue cohosh, ↑blueberry root, ↑papooseroot, ↑squawroot, ↑squaw root, ↑Caulophyllum thalictrioides,… … Useful english dictionary
papoose-root — /pa poohs rooht , root , peuh /, n. the blue cohosh. See under cohosh. [1805 15, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
papoose-root — /pa poohs rooht , root , peuh /, n. the blue cohosh. See under cohosh. [1805 15, Amer.] … Useful english dictionary
blueberry root — noun tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally • Syn: ↑blue cohosh, ↑papooseroot, ↑papoose root, ↑squawroot, ↑squaw root, ↑Caulophyllum thalictrioides,… … Useful english dictionary
squaw root — noun tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally • Syn: ↑blue cohosh, ↑blueberry root, ↑papooseroot, ↑papoose root, ↑squawroot, ↑Caulophyllum thalictrioides,… … Useful english dictionary
Caulophyllum thalictroides — papooseroot papooseroot, papoose root papoose root . (Bot.) A tall herb ({Caulophyllum thalictroides}) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the {Cohosh}. See also… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Caulophyllum thalictroides — papooseroot papooseroot, papoose root papoose root . (Bot.) A tall herb ({Caulophyllum thalictroides}) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the {Cohosh}. See also… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cohosh — papooseroot papooseroot, papoose root papoose root . (Bot.) A tall herb ({Caulophyllum thalictroides}) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the {Cohosh}. See also… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
papooseroot — papooseroot, papoose root papoose root . (Bot.) A tall herb ({Caulophyllum thalictroides}) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the {Cohosh}. See also {Cohosh}. Syn … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
papooseroot — noun tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally • Syn: ↑blue cohosh, ↑blueberry root, ↑papoose root, ↑squawroot, ↑squaw root, ↑Caulophyllum thalictrioides,… … Useful english dictionary