bloodroot

American  

[bluhd-root, -root] / ˈblʌdˌrut, -ˌrʊt /

noun

1. a North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family, having a red root and root sap and a solitary white flower.

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bloodroot British  

/ ˈblʌdˌruːt /

noun

1. Also called: red puccoon.  a North American papaveraceous plant, Sanguinaria canadensis , having a single whitish flower and a fleshy red root that yields a red dye

2. another name for tormentil

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Etymology

Origin of bloodroot

First recorded in 1570–80; blood + root ¹

Example Sentences

Shell’s job is to sleep for 10 years alongside her passengers while Ragtime keeps the ship running, docks at Space Station Lagos for maintenance and proceeds to orbit Bloodroot, the destination planet.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2021

Lesbians went to Bloodroot, a still-busy vegetarian restaurant in Bridgeport, Conn., that sprang from the lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s.

From New York Times • May 28, 2021

The women who work alongside Ms. Furie and Ms. Miriam at Bloodroot are immigrants from Brazil, Congo, Haiti and Mexico, and each helps make the menu what it is: an international miscellany.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

When the restaurant opened in 1977, the local vegetarian scene was small, and the no-tipping policy Bloodroot adopted wasn’t yet part of the national conversation about restaurant labor.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

A week farther into April, and the Bloodroot opens,—a name of guilt, and a type of innocence.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various