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English noun: tetterwort

1. tetterwort (plant) 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


Synonymsbloodroot, puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis


Broader (hypernym)herb, herbaceous plant


Member meronymgenus Sanguinaria, Sanguinaria









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