papoose root

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papoose root - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  papooseroot \papooseroot\, papoose root \papoose root\n. (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: blue cohosh, blueberry root, papoose root, squawroot,
          squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum   thalictroides
          .
          [WordNet 1.5]

papoose root - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  papoose root
      n 1: 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, squaw root,
           Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides
           ]