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Definition of Bloodroot
1. Noun. 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.
Group relationships: Genus Sanguinaria, Sanguinaria
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Definition of Bloodroot
1. n. A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.
Definition of Bloodroot
1. Noun. A North American plant, ''Sanguinaria canadensis'', of the poppy family, which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bloodroot
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Medical Definition of Bloodroot
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloodroot
Literary usage of Bloodroot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Universal formulary: Containing the Methods of Preparing and Administering by Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1866)
"bloodroot. This is the rhizome of the Sanguinaria Cana- ... R. Bruised bloodroot,
two ounces. Spirit of nitric ether, two pints. ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"bloodroot Teacher's Story "What time the earliest ferns unfold, ... Such a dye
was found in the bloodroot, a dye appropriate in its color to represent a ..."
3. Review of Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1852)
"The RHIZOMA of Sanguinaria Canadensis, or bloodroot (Nat. ... bloodroot is an
acrid emetic, and in large doses, an aero-narcotic poison. ..."
4. Stillwater Pastorals: And Other Poems by Paul Shivell (1915)
"TO A bloodroot FLOWER bloodroot in the leafless wood, Companion of gray Solitude,
When the birds begin to sing, Thou, frail welcomer of Spring, ..."
5. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"... bloodroot ( Sanguinaria), are capsules. FIG. 17. — Forms of fruit: 1, capsule
of Rhododendron; 2, Nicotiana; 3, ..."
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