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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as knob-root.

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  • Gathered several August flowers on the banks of the brook; the yellow knot-root, or Collinsonia, with its horned blossom; yellow speckled-jewels, more rare with us than the orange kind; purple asters, and a handsome bunch of red berries of the cranberry-tree.

    Rural Hours 1887

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