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Webster 1913 Edition
Sanguinaria
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(Bot.)
A genus of plants of the Poppy family.
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Sanguinaria Canadensis
, or bloodroot, is the only species. It has a perennial rootstock, which sends up a few roundish lobed leaves and solitary white blossoms in early spring. See Bloodroot
. 2.
The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.