squaw : Idioms & Phrases

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Old squaw

  • noun a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States
    oldwife; Clangula hyemalis.
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  • (Zoöl.), a duck (Clangula hyemalis) inhabiting the northern parts of both hemispheres. The adult male is varied with black and white and is remarkable for the length of its tail. Called also longtailed duck, south southerly, callow, hareld, and old wife.
Webster 1913

squaw corn

  • noun corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch
    soft corn; Zea mays amylacea; flour corn.
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squaw grass

  • noun plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers
    Xerophyllum tenax; bear grass.
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squaw huckleberry

  • noun small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer
    Vaccinium stamineum; deerberry.
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squaw man

  • noun a white man married to a North American Indian woman
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squaw root

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

  • noun deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit
    Rhus trilobata; skunkbush; squawbush.
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