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squaw root

[skwaw-root, -root]

squaw·root

[skwaw-root, -root]
noun
1.
a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, especially under oaks.
2.
the blue cohosh.
See under cohosh.


Origin:
1805–15; squaw + root1, from its former use by Indians in treating women
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Squaw root is always a great word to know.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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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 [syn: blue cohosh
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