chocolate root
US (now rare )
noun
(Also more fully Indian chocolate root) water avens, Geum rivale, the root of which smells of chocolate and was used to make a medicinal drink; also called Indian chocolate.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Benjamin Barton (1766–1815).
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