genus Caulophyllum

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1.genus Caulophyllum - blue cohosh Caulophyllummagnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiospermsbarberry family, Berberidaceae, family Berberidaceae - shrubs or herbsblue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root, squawroot - tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally