資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Redroot \Red"root`\ (r?d"r?t`), n. (Bot.)
A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey
tea (see under {Tea}), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the
Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy
swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.
資料來源 : WordNet®
redroot
n : perennial woodland native of North America having a red root
and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leave and white
flower in early spring and having acrid emetic
properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant
[syn: {bloodroot}, {puccoon}, {tetterwort}, {Sanguinaria
canadensis}]