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Significats de tetterwort en anglès

portuguès
sanguinaria
català
sanguinària del canadà
espanyol
sanguinaria canadensis

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.

Veure'n més
        sanguinària del canadà
        Sinònims
        Examples for "bloodroot"
        Examples for "bloodroot"
        1
        Eric crowned himself with bloodroot and contrived grass sandals for his feet.
        The Little House in the Fairy Wood
        2
        She found clumps of bloodroot, great anemone-flowers that she picked by the handful.
        I've Married Marjorie
        3
        A drop of orange-red sap from bloodroot smeared between the toes twice a day.
        The day the falls stood still
        4
        Rachel found the bloodroot first, under a shaded outcrop where a spring head seeped.
        Serena
        5
        By this time the hepatica, anemone saxifrage, arbutus, houstonia, and bloodroot may be counted on.
        Wake-Robin
        1
        To-day Mrs. Bassett rejoiced in the discovery of the season's first puccoon, showing its orange-yellow cluster on a sandy slope.
        A Hoosier Chronicle
        2
        The blood-root, sanguinaria, or puccoon, as it is termed by some of the native tribes, is worthy of attention from the root to the flower.
        The Backwoods of Canada / Being Letters from the Wife of an Emig...
        Translations for tetterwort
        portuguès
        sanguinaria