Sweetroot

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    liquorice countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    western sweet cicely, western sweetroot (Osmorhiza occidentalis) countable, uncountable

    "Like other members of this large family, sweetroot presents its tiny flowers in terminal, umbrella-shaped inflorescences that do little to assure us that the plant is not the deadly water hemlock (Cicula douglasii)"

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"Like other members of this large family, sweetroot presents its tiny flowers in terminal, umbrella-shaped inflorescences that do little to assure us that the plant is not the deadly water hemlock (Cicula douglasii)"

Etymology

From sweet + root.

Related phrases

western sweet cicelywestern sweetroot

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