noun
- Perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant.
- synonyms: puccoon, redroot, tetterwort, Sanguinaria canadensis
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