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A plant Sanguinaria Canadensis with a red root and red sap and bearing a pretty white flower in early spring called also puccoon redroot bloodwort tetterwort turmeric and Indian paint It has acrid emetic properties and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant See Sanguinaria...
Bloodwort
A plant Rumex sanguineus or bloody veined dock The name is applied also to bloodroot Sanguinaria Canadensis and to an extensive order of plants Haeligmodoraceaelig the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing...
Papaveraceous
Of pertaining to or resembling a natural family of plants Papaveraceae of which the poppy the celandine and the bloodroot are well known examples...
Puccoon
Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum Lithospermum hirtum and Lithospermum canescens also the pigment itself...
Redroot
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...
Scape
A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem as in the stemless violets the bloodroot and the like...
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