squawroot

2 definitions found

squawroot - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Squawroot \Squaw"root`\ (skw[add]"r[=oo]t`), n. (Bot.)
     A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak
     woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.
     [1913 Webster]

squawroot - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  squawroot
      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
           ]