Definitions

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  • noun North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots

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Examples

  • _ Every school child in the country digs out and eats the pleasant peppery crinkle-root.

    Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

  • The memory of my youthful Sundays is fragrant with wintergreens, black birch, and crinkle-root, to say nothing of the harvest apples that grew in our neighbor's orchard; and the memory of my Sundays in later years is fragrant with arbutus, and the showy orchid, and wild strawberries, and touched with the sanctity of woodland walks and hilltops.

    Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

  • I never yet got one, though I have found many of the crinkle-root salads.

    Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • Neither do I forget the little spring run near by, where we frequently paused to drink, and to gather "crinkle-root" (DENTARIA) in the early summer; nor the dilapidated log fence that was the highway of the squirrels; nor the ledges to one side, whence in early spring the skunk and coon sallied forth and crossed our path; nor the gray, scabby rocks in the pasture; nor the solitary tree, nor the old weather-worn stump; no, nor the creek in which I plunged one winter morning in attempting to leap its swollen current.

    The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

  • The woods have been greatly mutilated in which they used to loiter on the way to school and gather crinkle-root to eat with their lunches, ” though they usually ate it all up before lunch-time came, he said.

    Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

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