'Squawroot' definitions:

Definition of 'squawroot'

(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 'Squawroot'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]