squawroot
- noun
- /ˈskwɔˌrut/
- Specialized
:
raíz de squaw
- Many herbalists appreciate squawroot for its unique medicinal properties and its blue, berry-like fruit.
Examples
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The squawroot plant is known for its thick, knotty rootstock that was used for medicinal purposes.
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Walking fern hitched across boulders, and atop the bluff, squawroot burst through oak leaves, the cones bristling with yellow scales edged in brown.
Fiction book (2000) -
In the forest, I discovered a squawroot that was growing near the base of a tall pine tree.
Synonyms
Tall forest herb with blue berries and thick roots once used in traditional medicine
A tall plant with blue berries and thick roots once used as medicine
A tall woodland plant with blue berries and a thick root once used in medicine
A tall herb with blue berries and a thick knotty root once used as medicine
A tall plant with blue berries and a thick root used as medicine
A tall plant that lives many years and has blue berries and thick knotted roots once used as medicine
A thick root from the blueberry plant once used in traditional medicine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Squawroot combines squaw, an old word settlers used for 'Native American woman' and now seen as offensive, with root, because people used the plant's root as 'medicine'. So, the name remembers the link between the plant and the people who used it for healing.
