redroot
chiefly North American
noun
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.
- punchifier
- punchily
- Punchinello
- Punchinello voice
- punchiness
- punching bag
- punching ball
- punching block
- punching match
- punching press
- punch in (or out)
- punchless
- punchline
- punch list
- Punch-man
- punch-mark
- punch-marked
- punch one's ticket
- punch-out
- punch-packed
- punch-packing
- punch plate
- punch press
- punch-prop
- punch-pull