PAPOOSE ROOT

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Meaning:

Tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally

Synonyms:

blue cohosh; blueberry root; Caulophyllum thalictrioides; Caulophyllum thalictroides; papoose root; papooseroot; squaw root; squawroot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("papoose root" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("papoose root" is a member of...):

Caulophyllum; genus Caulophyllum (blue cohosh)

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