Found 2 items, similar to Redroot.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: redroot
redroot
n : perennial woodland native of North America having a red root
and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leave and white
flower in early spring and having acrid emetic
properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant
[syn:
bloodroot,
puccoon,
tetterwort,
Sanguinaria canadensis
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Redroot
Redroot
\Red"root`\ (r?d"r?t`), n. (Bot.)
A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey
tea (see under
Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the
Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy
swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.
[1913 Webster]