Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The bloodroot.
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- noun botany Any of the
genus Sanguinaria , orbloodroots . - noun The
rootstock of thebloodroot , used inmedicine as anemetic , etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you have little friends; or relatives who live in the city and cannot go into the woods to look for the sanguinaria, you can easily pack a pasteboard box full of the roots and moss, and send it to them by express, or, if it is not too heavy, by mail.
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In the first place, you must live in the country, where you can find that early spring flower, the blood-root or _sanguinaria_.
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Take podophyllin and sanguinaria, of each ten grains; leptandrin, twenty grains; white sugar, forty grains.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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Take podophyllin, sixty grains; leptandrin and sanguinaria, ipecac and pure cayenne, each thirty grains.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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Take pulverized skunk cabbage root, two drams; pulverized extract of liquorice, one dram; sanguinaria and macrotin, of each thirty grains.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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Since that period, I have used the tinct. of sanguinaria largely during five years attendance upon the Marine Hospital, and in private practice.
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Dr. Shanks, of Tennessee, also destroyed a gelatinous polypus with sanguinaria, after extraction had twice failed.
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Though paying some attention to medicinal plants, I use habitually very few of them, viz: the sanguinaria, hoarhound, blackberry root, and a few others.
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The blood-root, sanguinaria, or puccoon, as it is termed by some of the native tribes, is worthy of attention from the root to the flower.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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The flowers of the sanguinaria resemble the white crocus very closely: when it first comes up the bud is supported by the leaf, and is folded together with it; the flower, however, soon elevates itself above its protector, while the leaf having performed its duty of guardian to the tender bud, expands to its full size.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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