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redroot
[ red-root, -root ]
/ ˈrɛdˌrut, -ˌrʊt /
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noun
a North American plant, Lachnanthes caroliniana (or L. tinctoria), having sword-shaped leaves, woolly, yellowish flowers, and a root that is red in color.
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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How to use redroot in a sentence
He notes merely the white blossoms of the redroot peeping through the withered leaves, and the buds of the buckeye.
The Kentucky Warbler|James Lane AllenThe weeds commonly called redroot or iron-weed are very good for this.
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium|Jessie H. BancroftIt does indeed look like a kind of forethought in the redroot.
A Year in the Fields|John Burroughs
British Dictionary definitions for redroot
redroot
/ (ˈrɛdˌruːt) /
noun
a bog plant, Lachnanthes tinctoria, of E North America, having woolly yellow flowers and roots that yield a red dye: family Haemodoraceae
another name for pigweed (def. 1)
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