toothwort

Definition of Toothwort in English :

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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

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Toothwort

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noun

1.

a parasitic European scrophulariaceous plant, Lathraea squamaria, having no green parts, scaly cream or pink stems, pinkish flowers, and a rhizome covered with toothlike scales

2.

any North American or Eurasian plant of the genus Dentaria, having creeping rhizomes covered with toothlike projections: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

Toothwort

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noun

1.

any of a genus (Dentaria) of small woodland plants of the crucifer family, having scaly or toothed, pungent rhizomes and white or pinkish flowers in spring

2.

any of a genus (Lathraea) of European parasitic plants of the broomrape family, having a rhizome covered with tooth-shaped scales

Toothwort

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n.

1. Any of several eastern North American plants of the genus Cardamine of the mustard family, such as crinkleroot, having fibrous or fleshy rhizomes and palmately divided leaves.

2. A Eurasian plant (Lathraea squamata) of the figwort family, having scaly cream-colored or pink stems and pinkish flowers.

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