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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From the American Indian name.]

(Bot.)

Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of

Lithospermum

(

Lithospermum hirtum

, and

Lithospermum canescens

); also, the pigment itself.

Noun.

A plant, a species of Sanguinaria; the blood-root.