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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant [syn: bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, tetterwort, Sanguinaria canadensis]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tetterwort Tet"ter*wort`, n. (Bot.) A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bloodroot Blood"root`, n. (Bot.) A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria. Note: In England the name is given to the tormentil, once used as a remedy for dysentery.