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Crinkleroot

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Noun

1. cardamine diphylla, crinkle root, crinkle-root, crinkleroot, dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort

North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Crinkleroot

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noun
any of several species of the toothwort Dentaria, esp D. diphylla of E North America, which has a fleshy pungent rhizome and clusters of white or pinkish flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

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Crinkleroot

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noun
a toothwort (Dentaria diphylla) with small, white or lilac-colored flowers and a white, tuberous, pungent rhizome

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Crinkleroot

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n.
A woodland plant (Cardamine diphylla) in the mustard family, occurring in eastern North America and having a thick rhizome, trifoliolate leaves, and clusters of white or pinkish flowers.

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