Squawroot

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  squawroot
       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}, {papooseroot},
            {papoose root}, {squaw root}, {Caulophyllum
           thalictrioides}, {Caulophyllum thalictroides}]