Found 2 items, similar to papooseroot.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: papooseroot
papooseroot
n : 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,
papoose root
,
squawroot,
squaw root,
Caulophyllum thalictrioides
,
Caulophyllum thalictroides]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: papooseroot
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]