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Definition of redroot in English: redrootnoun North American 1New Jersey tea, Ceanothus americanus (family Rhamnaceae); (also, with distinguishing word) any of the other shrubs of this genus. 2A swamp plant, Lachnanthes caroliniana (family Haemodoraceae), with hairy yellow flowers, also called paint-root. 3(More fully "redroot pigweed") a kind of amaranth, Amaranthus retroflexus.
Origin Early 18th century; earliest use found in John Lawson (d. 1711), surveyor. Definition of redroot in US English: redrootnoun North American 1New Jersey tea, Ceanothus americanus (family Rhamnaceae); (also, with distinguishing word) any of the other shrubs of this genus. 2A swamp plant, Lachnanthes caroliniana (family Haemodoraceae), with hairy yellow flowers, also called paint-root. 3(More fully "redroot pigweed") a kind of amaranth, Amaranthus retroflexus.
Origin Early 18th century; earliest use found in John Lawson (d. 1711), surveyor. |