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Webster 1913 Edition
Redroot
Red′rootˊ
(r?d′r?tˊ)
, Noun.
(Bot.)
A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under
Tea
), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.