Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A perennial herb (Lewisia rediviva) native to western North America, having showy pink or whitish flowers and a bitter but edible fleshy root.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The big-root, Megarrhiza Californica.
- noun The Lewisia rediviva, a plant which gives its name to the Bitter Root mountains lying between Idaho and Montana.
- noun Dogbane, Apocynum androsæmifolium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant (
Lewisia rediviva ) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the riverSpæt'lum .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lewisia rediviva, a small, low, pink
flower with a yellowcenter
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
Etymologies
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I am locking myself in my survival shelter in the middle of the bitterroot mountains with my years supply of food and 50 guns ...
Obama Win Triggers Firearm-Sales Boom Dave Hurteau 2008
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"Yakama citizens gather huckleberries and chokecherries and roots like lammush and bitterroot and pick various flowers and plants from the lands surrounding the Landfill all for use as food or medicine," the tribe wrote in its 60-page complaint.
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A lot of us in Montana are tired of Hank and his attitude, that guy down in the bitterroot should have kept swinging when he had junior on the floor.
New McCain/RNC Ad In Montana: "Don't Be Bitter. Vote McCain" 2009
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Big snow event taking place across the west, especially from the wind river, the bitterroot, the bighorns down to the San Juan and Sangre de Cristos.
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We do have winter storm warnings in effect for the northern cascades in Washington state and also into the bitterroot, you guys could pick up a foot of snow as well before all is said and done.
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That said, I will make no attempt to explain why the random number that Melissa gave me, because I could not decide on which photograph to post tonight, coincided exactly with the image I had had on the screen a moment or two before, because I knew she liked bitterroot flowers, and I wanted a bright image of spring.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004
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To Mz Em: I don't know if those bitterroot flowers are as small as they look.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004
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Not that there was much to cook anymore but bitterroot.
She Is The Darkness Cook, Glen 1997
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