PEPPER ROOT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots

Synonyms:

Cardamine diphylla; crinkle-root; crinkle root; crinkleroot; Dentaria diphylla; pepper root; toothwort

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Nouns denoting plants

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

bitter cress; bittercress (any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic)

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