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redroot
[ red-root, -root ]
noun
- any of various other plants having red roots, as the alkanet, Alkanna tinctoria, pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus, and New Jersey tea, Ceanothus americanus.
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He notes merely the white blossoms of the redroot peeping through the withered leaves, and the buds of the buckeye.
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The weeds commonly called redroot or iron-weed are very good for this.
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It does indeed look like a kind of forethought in the redroot.
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