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sanguinarias

sanguinarias is the plural of sanguinaria.

Meaning of sanguinaria

Noun

sanguinaria (plural sanguinarias)

  1. Any of the genus Sanguinaria, or bloodroots.
    • […] the violets, houstonias, hepaticas, and sanguinarias, which take so kindly to home cultivation.1871, Edward Everett Hale, Old and New, volume 3, page 108
  2. The rootstock of the bloodroot, once used medicinally as an emetic, etc.

Questions about sanguinarias

What is sanguinarias the plural of?
Sanguinarias is the plural of sanguinaria.

Words near sanguinarias in the dictionary

  1. sanguinamide
  2. sanguinamides
  3. sanguinaria
  4. sanguinarian
  5. sanguinarians
  6. sanguinarias
  7. sanguinaries
  8. sanguinarily
  9. sanguinarine
  10. sanguinariness
  11. sanguinary

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