papooseroot

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

papooseroot
    n 1: tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue
         berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used
         medicinally [syn: {blue cohosh}, {blueberry root},
         {papooseroot}, {papoose root}, {squawroot}, {squaw root},
         {Caulophyllum thalictrioides}, {Caulophyllum
         thalictroides}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

papooseroot \papooseroot\, papoose root \papoose root\n. (Bot.)
   A tall herb ({Caulophyllum thalictroides}) of eastern North
   America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick
   knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the {Cohosh}. See
   also {Cohosh}.

   Syn: blue cohosh, blueberry root, papoose root, squawroot,
        squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, {Caulophyllum
        thalictroides}.
        [WordNet 1.5]