| blue cohosh | (n) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally, Syn. squawroot, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, squaw root, papoose root, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papooseroot, blueberry root |
| Squawroot | n. (Bot.) A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also |