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lowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.

The root of a handsome erect herb (Leptandra, syn. Veronica, Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.

To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot. A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations. Goldsmith.

To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep. Shak.

An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.

To eradicate; to extirpate.

Same as Setterwort.

The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).

In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. -- n.

n orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.

A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.

A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.

were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these.

A perennial herb (Gypsophila Struthium) the root of which is used in Spain as a substitute for soap.

ant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.

A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.

To swell out; to strut. [Obs.] Chapman.

Licorice.

The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.

To tear up by the roots; to eradicate; to uproot.