| squawroot 
 
 tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
 • Syn:
 blue cohosh, blueberry root, papooseroot, papoose root, squaw root,
 Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides
 • Hypernyms:
 shrub, bush
 • Member Holonyms:
 Caulophyllum, genus Caulophyllum
 
 
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