'papooseroot' definitions:
Definition of 'papooseroot'
From: WordNet
noun
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]
Definition of 'papooseroot'
From: GCIDE
- 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]