squaw root meaning

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squaw root (noun): tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally.

Definition of squaw root

  1. tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally

    Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, papooseroot, papoose root, squawroot, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides

    Type of: shrub

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