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CAULOPHYLLUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Caulophyllum mean?
• CAULOPHYLLUM (noun)
The noun CAULOPHYLLUM has 1 sense:
1. blue cohosh
Familiarity information: CAULOPHYLLUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blue cohosh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Caulophyllum; genus Caulophyllum
Hypernyms ("Caulophyllum" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Caulophyllum"):
blue cohosh; blueberry root; Caulophyllum thalictrioides; Caulophyllum thalictroides; papoose root; papooseroot; squaw root; squawroot (tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally)
Holonyms ("Caulophyllum" is a member of...):
barberry family; Berberidaceae; family Berberidaceae (shrubs or herbs)
Context examples
A herbal remedy derived from the root of the perennial flowering plant Caulophyllum thalictroides grown in the eastern North America.
(Blue Cohosh Root, NCI Thesaurus)
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