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Definition of Blueberry root
1. Noun. Tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally.
Group relationships: Caulophyllum, Genus Caulophyllum
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blueberry Root
Literary usage of Blueberry root
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States by Benjamin Smith Barton (1900)
"PRESCRIPTIONS. as much blueberry root, No. 16 ; boil the roots in three quarts
ot water to less than one, add alum and honey to make it rough and palatable. ..."
2. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"... Root, and blueberry root. Habitat.—In rich, moist woods from Canada to South
Carolina and westward. A very common plant, and quite widely distributed. ..."
3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"... Squaw-root, Blueberry-root, Blue Ginseng, Yellow Ginseng. Rhizome, and roots;
Caulophyllum, USP; demulcent, ..."
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