squawroot

Noun

squaw=root

WORDNET DICTIONARY

squawroot(n = noun.plant) blue cohosh, blueberry root, caulophyllum thalictrioides, caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root - tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally;

is a member of caulophyllum, genus caulophyllum

is a kind of bush, shrub

squawroot, n.

A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root. [1913 Webster]