Source : WordNet®

papoose root
     n : 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},
          {squawroot}, {squaw root}, {Caulophyllum thalictrioides},
          {Caulophyllum thalictroides}]