squaw root


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Noun1.squaw root - tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinallysquaw root - tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squawroot
Caulophyllum, genus Caulophyllum - blue cohosh
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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