man-root
noun
1Either of two North American ipomoeas with large tuberous roots, Ipomoea leptophylla, of the dry plains east of the Rocky Mountains, and the wild potato vine, I. pandurata.
2Any of several western North American gourds of the genus Marah (family Cucurbitaceae).
3The medicinal root of a ginseng (genus Panax), especially one from Asia.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in William Hemsley Emory (1811–1887).
- cut the mustard
- cut the (umbilical) cord
- cut-throat
- cut-throat finch
- cut-throat razor
- cut-throat trout
- cut-throat weaver
- cut time
- cutting
- cutting edge
- cutting grass
- cutting horse
- cuttingly
- cutting room
- cuttle
- cuttlebone
- cuttlefish
- cut to the chase
- cutty
- Cutty Sark
- cutty-stool
- cut up
- cut up rough
- cut up well
- cutwater