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RHIZOME |
Rootstock |
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SUCKERS |
New shoots from rootstock |
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RHIZOMATOUS |
Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock. |
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RHIZANTHOUS |
Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from
a root. |
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VERATRALBINE |
A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the
rootstock of Veratrum album. |
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SANGUINARIA |
The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an
emetic, etc. |
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COLTSFOOT |
A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and
rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. |
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BIRTHROOT |
An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its
astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties. |
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HARE'S-FOOT FERN |
A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a
soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name. |
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GINGER |
The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which
is much used in cookery and in medicine. |
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SENEGIN |
A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala
Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid. |
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HYDRORHIZA |
The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is
attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea. |
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ORRIS |
A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of
flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets. |
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CESPITOSE |
Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from
one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots. |
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BAROMETZ |
The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern
(Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted,
somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb. |
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METHYSTICIN |
A white, silky, crystalline substance extracted from
the thick rootstock of a species of pepper (Piper methysticum) of the
South Sea Islands; -- called also kanakin. |
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ROOT |
The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a
tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet
flag. |
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CAUDEX |
The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a
palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous
plant. |
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HYDRASTINE |
An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal
(Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline
substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge. |
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COHOSH |
A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides),
whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The
name is sometime... |
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PUTTYROOT |
...) which
flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year
a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which se... |
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LEAF |
A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of
a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is
elaborated under... |
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BLOODROOT |
... paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a
stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria. ... |
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TURMERIC |
The root or rootstock of the Curcuma longa. It is
externally grayish, but internally of a deep, lively yellow or saffron
color, and has a sligh... |
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OSMUND |
... often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock
contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen. ... |