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stoneroot

stoneroot noun: collinsonia canadensis, a perennial medicinal herb in the mint family, with a very hard root.

Noun

stoneroot (uncountable)

  1. Collinsonia canadensis, a perennial medicinal herb in the mint family, with a very hard root.
    • Stoneroot is under the dominion of the Moon. It is used with good effect in chronic catarrh of the bladder, (as are other plants mentioned elsewhere,) whites, and weak stomach.1867, Oliver Phelps Brown, “COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. Stoneroot.”, in The complete herbalist; or, The people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies
    • Stoneroot is found in moist, shady woods from Maine to Wisconsin, south to Florida and Kansas.1907, Alice Henkel, American Root Drugs, page 58

Origin of stoneroot

From stone + root.

Questions about stoneroot

What does stoneroot mean?
Stoneroot means collinsonia canadensis, a perennial medicinal herb in the mint family, with a very hard root.
What part of speech is stoneroot?
Stoneroot is a noun.

Words near stoneroot in the dictionary

  1. stonerlike
  2. stonerock
  3. stonerocks
  4. stoneroller
  5. stonerollers
  6. stoneroot
  7. stoners
  8. stonerunner
  9. stonerunners
  10. stones
  11. stones of the philosophers

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