Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A perennial wildflower (Sanguinaria canadensis) native to forests in eastern North America, having a single lobed leaf, a solitary white flower in early spring, and a fleshy rootstock exuding a poisonous red sap. Also called red puccoon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The tormentil (Potentilla Tormentilla) of Europe and northern Asia: named from the color of its root, which is rich in a red coloring matter. It is also rich in tannin, and has been used as an astringent.
- n. The common name in the United States of a papaveraceous herb, Sanguinaria Canadensis, one of the earliest spring flowers. Its fleshy roots yield a dark-red juice, are bitter and acrid, and contain a peculiar alkaloid, sanguinarin. It is used in medicine as a stimulant, expectorant, and emetic.
Wiktionary
- n. A North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also
puccoon ,redroot ,bloodwort ,tetterwort ,turmeric , andIndian paint . It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See sanguinaria.
WordNet 3.0
- n. perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant
Examples
“Last night I closed the door to the smokehouse where the bloodroot is kept in cardboard boxes, away from the mice and bugs.”
“This is an understory herb -- this particular one is called bloodroot," he says.”
“Amanda Rafferty of Haverhill took homeopathic sanguinaria canadensis, made from a toxic herb known as bloodroot, for her monthly migraine headaches.”
“Two or three years 'growth will raise these plants above all grass and low vegetation, and a sprinkling of laurel, rhododendron, hardy ferns and a few intermingling colonies of native wild flowers such as bloodroot, false Solomon's seal and columbines for the East, as”
“Join us on this special adventure exploring The Little Grand Canyon for nature's spring gems such as bloodroot, spring beauty, and trillium.”
“I can name sunflower and dandelion and bloodroot and trillium and verbena.”
“Edible Chenopodium, Indian ricegrass, sego lily roots, yucca, biscuit-root, bloodroot and many other nutritious and medicinal plants still grow here.27 The soil, though alkaline as short-grass soils are, has been enriched by centuries of river and creek silt deposition.”
“The bloodroot is always the most short lived among those early ephemerals, we get too hot too soon every year for them to last.”
“He put the new bag among the others, taking time to consider the collection: toothwort, columbine, bloodroot.”
“The human condition put names to everything: bloodroot rockflower whip-poor-will, tulip bitternut hackberry.”
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