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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The bloodroot.

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  • noun botany Any of the genus Sanguinaria, or bloodroots.
  • noun The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Sanguinaria, genus name, from Latin (herba) sanguināriā, a plant that stanches blood, feminine of sanguinārius, sanguinary; see sanguinary.]

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From the genus name.

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