'Squawroot' definitions:

Definition of 'squawroot'

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]

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