Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun papooseroot
1 sense of papooseroot
Sense 1
blue cohosh, blueberry root, papooseroot, papoose root, squawroot, squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides -- (tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally)
=> shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)