Definition of tetterwort
English to English 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
source: WordNet 3.0 - A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.
source: Webster 1913
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tetterwort, toothwort, terret, tetrode, tort, thitherward, trot, tattered, thereout, terreity, tourette, tethered, taro root, tarot, trout, thitherto, terrietia, therewith, troth, tetradite
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