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    PAPOOSEROOT

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinallyplay

    Synonyms:

    blue cohosh; blueberry root; Caulophyllum thalictrioides; Caulophyllum thalictroides; papoose root; papooseroot; squaw root; squawroot

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("papooseroot" is a kind of...):

    bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

    Holonyms ("papooseroot" is a member of...):

    Caulophyllum; genus Caulophyllum (blue cohosh)

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