squawroot Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
    squaw root; blueberry root; papooseroot; blue cohosh; Caulophyllum thalictrioides; papoose root; Caulophyllum thalictroides.

WordNet

Squaw"root` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.

Webster 1913