squaw root

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

  squaw 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
           ]