bloodroot

English

Etymology

From blood +‎ root.

Noun

bloodroot (usually uncountable, plural bloodroots)

  1. A North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family, which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring.
    • 1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 177:
      “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.

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