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Bitterroot

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A plant Lewisia rediviva allied to the purslane but with fleshy farinaceous roots growing in the mountains of Idaho Montana etc It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaeligtlum

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