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Bloodroot n. (Bot.) A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria. Note: In England the name is given to the tormentil, once used as a remedy for dysentery.

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... are in full bloom, the elms almost over. The leaves of the Horsechestnut are quite large. The lilacs are nearly in leaf. April 24. We went up to Waverley and found bloodroot up, spice bush out, violets, dog-tooths and anemones, also caltha. April 28. All the cherries are in full bloom. April 29. Picked an apple blossom in ...

— Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; From Seed to Leaf • Jane H. Newell

... hill which led to the stone house where so many of my dreams centred, we found innumerable bloodroot and anemone blossoms, with a few buds of trailing arbutus just blushing ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various

Words linked to "Bloodroot" : tetterwort, herbaceous plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, redroot, puccoon, herb, genus Sanguinaria