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tooth·wort

(to͞oth′wûrt′, -wôrt′)

1. Any of several eastern North American plants of the genus Cardamine of the mustard family, such as crinkleroot, having fibrous or fleshy rhizomes and palmately divided leaves.

2. A Eurasian plant (Lathraea squamata) of the figwort family, having scaly cream-colored or pink stems and pinkish flowers.

[From the toothlike divisions of the underground stems . Sense 2, from its tooth-shaped scales .]

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toothwort

(ˈtuːθˌwɜːt)

1. (Plants) a parasitic European scrophulariaceous plant, Lathraea squamaria, having no green parts, scaly cream or pink stems, pinkish flowers, and a rhizome covered with toothlike scales

2. (Plants) any North American or Eurasian plant of the genus Dentaria, having creeping rhizomes covered with toothlike projections: family Brassicaceae (crucifers). See also crinkleroot

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tooth•wort

(ˈtuθˌwɜrt, -ˌwɔrt)

n.

1. any parasitic plant of the genus Lathraea, of the broomrape family, having a rootstock covered with toothlike scales.

2. any plant of the genus Dentaria, of the mustard family, having toothlike projections on the rootstock.

[1590–1600]

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toothwort - North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots

Cardamine diphylla, crinkle root, crinkleroot, crinkle-root, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root

bitter cress, bittercress - any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic

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dentairelathrée

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