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Definition of squawroot in English: squawrootnounˈskwɔːruːt Either of two North American plants. a yellow-brown parasitic plant related to the broomrape (Conopholis americana, family Orobanchaceae). the blue cohosh.See cohosh Example sentencesExamples - Other common names for this plant are black root, bugbane, rattle root, rattle top, rattle squawroot, snake root and rattle weed.
- As Quinn observed, ‘There were countless ‘squawroots ‘, for the colonists bestowed this convenient name upon any root they saw a squaw digging.’
- As a group, members of the genus Trillium are commonly known as trillium, wakerobin, toadshade, squawroot, or carrion flower and they have recently gained interest as garden plants.
- Peculiar, parasitic beechdrops grow on the roots of beech trees; squawroot, another plant devoid of chlorophyll, gains its nutrition from the leaf litter.
Definition of squawroot in US English: squawrootnounˈskwôro͞ot Either of two North American plants. the blue cohosh. See cohosh a yellow-brown parasitic plant related to the broomrape (Conopholis americana, family Orobanchaceae) Example sentencesExamples - As Quinn observed, ‘There were countless ‘squawroots ‘, for the colonists bestowed this convenient name upon any root they saw a squaw digging.’
- Other common names for this plant are black root, bugbane, rattle root, rattle top, rattle squawroot, snake root and rattle weed.
- Peculiar, parasitic beechdrops grow on the roots of beech trees; squawroot, another plant devoid of chlorophyll, gains its nutrition from the leaf litter.
- As a group, members of the genus Trillium are commonly known as trillium, wakerobin, toadshade, squawroot, or carrion flower and they have recently gained interest as garden plants.
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