Local English word record

blue cohosh

noun · 1 sense

tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally

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Synonyms

blueberry root, papooseroot, papoose root, squawroot, squaw root, caulophyllum thalictrioides, caulophyllum thalictroides

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