Squaw Root (Noun)
Meaning
Tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Squaw root was used by Native Americans to treat various ailments for centuries.
- The early European settlers brought their knowledge of medicinal plants like squaw root and combined it with their own.
- A thicket of unwelcome vegetation nearby was later identified as containing the hardy squaw root.
- Squaw root is used in herbal remedies that focus on menstrual relief and ease of childbirth.
- The foraging party discovered the hidden glade where the squaw root grew in abundance.
Synonyms
- Blueberry Root
- Squawroot
- Blue Cohosh
- Papoose Root
- Papooseroot
- Caulophyllum Thalictrioides
- Caulophyllum Thalictroides