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ˈblood-root
A popular name of several plants: esp. the Tormentil (Potentilla Tormentilla); Crimson Crane's Bill (Geranium sanguineum), and Red Puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis) of N. America.
1578Lyte Dodeons 48 The sixth [kind of Geranium] is called Sanguine roote, or Bloud roote. 1722Dudley in Phil. Trans. 295 Remedies for the sting of a Rattle⁓snake; among others..is a Root they call Blood-root. 1865Parkman Champlain ix. (1875) 307 The white stars of the bloodroot gleamed among dank, fallen leaves. |