Hypertext Webster Gateway: "squawroot"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Squawroot \Squaw"root`\, n. (Bot.)
A scaly parasitic plant ({Conopholis Americana}) found in oak
woods in the United States; -- called also {cancer root}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
squawroot
n : 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}, {squaw root}, {Caulophyllum
thalictrioides}, {Caulophyllum thalictroides}]
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