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单词 redroot
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redroot

[ red-root, -root ]
/ ˈrɛdˌrut, -ˌrʊt /

noun

a North American plant, Lachnanthes caroliniana (or L. tinctoria), having sword-shaped leaves, woolly, yellowish flowers, and a root that is red in color.
any of various other plants having red roots, as the alkanet, Alkanna tinctoria, pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus, and New Jersey tea, Ceanothus americanus.

Origin of redroot

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10; red1 + root1

Words nearby redroot

redress the balance, red ribbon, Red River, Red River War, red roman, redroot, red rose, red rot, red route, red rover, red run
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Example sentences from the Web for redroot

  • Old lady Field she make medicine with snakeroot and larkspur and marshroot and redroot.

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  • It does indeed look like a kind of forethought in the redroot.

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British Dictionary definitions for redroot

redroot
/ (ˈrɛdˌruːt) /

noun

a bog plant, Lachnanthes tinctoria, of E North America, having woolly yellow flowers and roots that yield a red dye: family Haemodoraceae
another name for pigweed (def. 1)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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