- bloodroot
- the dried rootstock of bloodroot, containing several alkaloids used in medicine
Origin of sanguinaria
Modern Latin from Classical Latin from (herba) sanguinaria, (herb) that stanches blood from sanguis, bloodsanguinaria
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sanguinaria
noun
The bloodroot.
Origin of sanguinaria
New Latin Sanguinaria genus name from Latin (herba) sanguināriā a plant that stanches blood feminine of sanguinārius sanguinary ; see sanguinary .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural sanguinarias)
- (botany) Any of the genus Sanguinaria, or bloodroots.
- The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
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From the genus name.
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