sanguinaria

American  

[sang-gwuh-nair-ee-uh] / ˌsæŋ gwəˈnɛər i ə /

noun

1. the bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.

2. its medicinal rhizome.

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sanguinaria British  

/ ˌsæŋɡwɪˈnɛərɪə /

noun

1. the dried rhizome of the bloodroot, used as an emetic

2. another name for bloodroot

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Etymology

Origin of sanguinaria

1800–10; < New Latin ( herba ) sanguināria bloody (herb), feminine of sanguinārius sanguinary

Example Sentences

Take pulverized skunk cabbage root, two drams; pulverized extract of liquorice, one dram; sanguinaria and macrotin, of each thirty grains.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous

The pick of all these seedlings would be C. sanguinaria, C. Veitchii splendens, C. lactea, C. nivea, and C. porphyrea.

From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various

Take podophyllin and sanguinaria, of each ten grains; leptandrin, twenty grains; white sugar, forty grains.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous

Take podophyllin, sixty grains; leptandrin and sanguinaria, ipecac and pure cayenne, each thirty grains.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous

Here the quick-footed wolf, Passing to lap thy waters, crushed the flower 186Of sanguinaria, from whose brittle stem The red drops fell like blood.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry