scammonyroot
- noun
- Archaic
:
raíz de escamonia
- The enormous scammonyroot can weigh several kilograms and store large amounts of starch.
Examples
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Botanists are still debating whether the scammonyroot is related to the cultivated sweet potato.
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Traditional healers sometimes used the scammonyroot for its purported medicinal properties.
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The scammonyroot is often used in traditional medicine.
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Many people are unaware of the scammonyroot and its uses.
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The enormous scammonyroot can weigh several kilograms and store large amounts of starch.
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Traditional healers sometimes used the scammonyroot for its purported medicinal properties.
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Many people are unaware of the scammonyroot and its uses.
Synonyms
A tropical climbing plant with a very large starchy root used as food
A tropical plant that grows along the ground or climbs and has a large starchy root used as food
A climbing tropical plant with a large root used for food and related to the sweet potato
A tropical plant that grows along the ground or climbs and has a large root people eat
A tropical climbing plant with a large starchy root often harvested for food
A plant with large starchy roots like a sweet potato
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scammonyroot joins scammony and root, and scammony was an old name for a strong medicinal plant whose juice was used as a 'medicine'. So, scammonyroot is the large starchy root of that plant, which explains why it can be used like a sweet potato and why traditional healers valued it.
