blueberry root

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

   Synonymsblue cohoshpapooserootpapoose rootsquawrootsquaw rootCaulophyllum thalictrioidesCaulophyllum thalictroides

   Broadershrub

   Part ofCaulophyllum

Questions about blueberry root

What does blueberry root mean?

blueberry root means "tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally".

What is another word for blueberry root?

Close synonyms include blue cohosh, papooseroot, papoose root, squawroot, squaw root. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blueberry root a common word?

blueberry root is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.