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PAPOOSE ROOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does papoose root mean?
• PAPOOSE ROOT (noun)
The noun PAPOOSE ROOT has 1 sense:
1. tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
Familiarity information: PAPOOSE ROOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
blue cohosh; blueberry root; Caulophyllum thalictrioides; Caulophyllum thalictroides; papoose root; papooseroot; squaw root; squawroot
Hypernyms ("papoose root" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("papoose root" is a member of...):
Caulophyllum; genus Caulophyllum (blue cohosh)
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