redroot
/red-root, -root/US // ˈrɛdˌrut, -ˌrʊt //UK // (ˈrɛdˌruːt) //
红根,红树根,红藕,红色根茎
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a North American plant, Lachnanthes caroliniana, having sword-shaped leaves, woolly, yellowish flowers, and a root that is red in color.
- : any of various other plants having red roots, as the alkanet, Alkanna tinctoria, pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus, and New Jersey tea, Ceanothus americanus.
Examples
He notes merely the white blossoms of the redroot peeping through the withered leaves, and the buds of the buckeye.
The weeds commonly called redroot or iron-weed are very good for this.
It does indeed look like a kind of forethought in the redroot.
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