redroot

red·root  (rdrt, -rt)

n.

1. An eastern North American bog plant (Lachnanthes caroliana) having red roots and woolly yellow flowers.

2. A coarse cosmopolitan weed (Amaranthus retroflexus) having hairy leaves and stout terminal panicles with dense lateral spikes of green flowers.

3. See ceanothus.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

redroot - perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, tetterwort, puccoon genus Sanguinaria, Sanguinaria - one species: bloodroot herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests