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dentaria Bot.|dɛnˈtɛərɪə|
[mod.L. (J. P. de Tournefort Institutiones Rei Herbariæ (1700) I. 225), fem. sing. of L. dentarius pertaining to the teeth, so called from the tooth-like scales on the roots of the plant.]
A plant of the cruciferous genus so named; = pepper-root (pepper n. 7), pepperwort 16, toothwort 3.
1818Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. 2nd Ser. VIII. 169 Among those, that flower in June, the most interesting are..the sarsaparilla, the dentaria or tooth-root,..and the mountain ash. 1886M. Arnold Lett. (1895) II. 327 The dentarias too are beautiful. |