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PAPOOSEROOT

Dictionary entry overview: What does papooseroot mean?

• PAPOOSEROOT (noun)
The noun PAPOOSEROOT has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: PAPOOSEROOT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PAPOOSEROOT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blue cohosh; blueberry root; Caulophyllum thalictrioides; Caulophyllum thalictroides; papoose root; papooseroot; squaw root; squawroot

Hypernyms ("papooseroot" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)

Holonyms ("papooseroot" is a member of...):

Caulophyllum; genus Caulophyllum (blue cohosh)

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