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bloodroots

bloodroots is the plural of bloodroot.

Meaning of bloodroot

Noun

bloodroot (usually uncountable, plural bloodroots)

  1. (usually) A North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family, which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring.
    • “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 177
    Synonyms:
    bloodwort, red puccoon root, pauson, tetterwort

Questions about bloodroots

What is bloodroots the plural of?
Bloodroots is the plural of bloodroot.

Words near bloodroots in the dictionary

  1. bloodplay
  2. bloodproof
  3. bloodred
  4. bloodreds
  5. bloodroot
  6. bloodroots
  7. bloods
  8. bloods in
  9. bloods out
  10. Bloodsaw
  11. Bloodsaws

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