squaw root

Questions about squaw root

What does squaw root mean?

squaw 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 squaw root?

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 squaw root a common word?

squaw 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.