squawroot

noun

1. tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally

   noun.plant

   Synonyms blue cohosh blueberry root caulophyllum thalictrioides caulophyllum thalictroides papoose root papooseroot squaw root

   Source: WordNet 3.0

2. A scaly parasitic plant (<i>Conopholis Americana</i>) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also <i>cancer root</i>.

   noun

   Source: webster1913