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tetterwort
Noun
1. perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leave and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant
(synonym) bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis
(hypernym) herb, herbaceous plant
(member-holonym) Sanguinaria, genus Sanguinaria


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Tetterwort
(n.)
A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.
  

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