caulophyllum thalictrioides

Questions about caulophyllum thalictrioides

What does caulophyllum thalictrioides mean?

caulophyllum thalictrioides 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 caulophyllum thalictrioides?

Close synonyms include blue cohosh, blueberry root, papooseroot, papoose root, squawroot. 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 caulophyllum thalictrioides a common word?

caulophyllum thalictrioides 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.