Meanings
plural bloodroots
- uncountableusuallyA North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family, which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring.
“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.
1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 177Synonyms: bloodwort, red puccoon root, pauson, tetterwort
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family, which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring.
More synonyms by meaning
nounperennial 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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan sanguinària del Canadà
- sanguinària del Canadàplant
Chinese Mandarin 血根草
- 血根草 (xiěgēncǎo)plant
Danish blodurt
- blodurtplant
Finnish lumikki
- lumikkiplant
French sanguinaire
- sanguinaireplant
German Blutwurz
- Blutwurzplant
Japanese 赤根草
- 赤根草 (akanegusa)plant
Portuguese sanguinária do Canadá
- sanguinária do Canadáplant
Russian лапча́тка, во́лчья стопа́
- лапча́тка (lapčátka)plant
- во́лчья стопа́ (vólčʹja stopá)plant
Spanish sanguinaria
- sanguinariaplant
Welsh gwaedwraidd
- gwaedwraiddplant
Cite this entry
bloodroot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bloodroot
“bloodroot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bloodroot. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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