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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, a genus of polypetalous plants of the order Papaveraceæ, the poppy family, and tribe Eupapavereæ. It is characterized by one-flowered scapes from a creeping rootstock, an oblong and stalked capsule with two valves which open to its base, and a flower with two sepals, eight to twelve petals in two or three rows, numerous stamens, and a short style club-shaped at the summit. The only species, S. Canadensis, the bloodroot, is common throughout eastern North America. Its conspicuous pure-white flower appears before the leaf; the latter is developed single from a terminal bud, is roundish or reniform with deep palmate lobes, of a pale bluish-green color, and enlarges throughout the season until often 6 inches across. Also called
red puccoon , and, from its use by the Indians for staining, red Indian paint. Seebloodroot , 2. - In zoology, in Illiger's classification (1811), a family of his Falculata, or mammals with claws, corresponding to the modern Felidæ, Canidæ, Hyænidæ, and part of the Viverridæ.
Wiktionary
- n. A taxonomic genus within the family Papaveraceae — the bloodroots.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Poppy family.
- n. The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one species: bloodroot
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“Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, flowers last only a day here, sometimes they are missed entirely.”
“In 1980 the Bloodroot Collective organized a feminist press (Sanguinaria) at the restaurant to publish The Political Palate cookbook.”
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“My beautiful flower is bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis.”
“Other homeopathic remedies to consider include Phytolacca, Sanguinaria, and Hydratis—all in 6th to 30th potency.”
“(_Sanguinaria_), celandine poppy (_Stylophorum_), and a few other wild plants (see Fig. 103, _A-I_).”
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
“The seeds of the _Argemone mexicana_, and of the _Sanguinaria canadensis_, also contain a bland, nutritious, colorless, fixed oil.”
“Sanguinaria treated in this way will generally so far anticipate its natural time of flowering as to present you the smiling, perfumed faces of its blossoms while the fields may yet be covered with snow.”
“Bellwort and Strawbell, Potentilla with Cinquefoil, and Sanguinaria with”
“It is valuable in colds, coughs, and female obstructions as a warm, diffusible stimulant and diaphoretic; sometimes combined with snakeroot and puccoon root (Sanguinaria).”
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