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- Rootstock - n. - A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.
- Caudex - n. - 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.
- Hydrorhiza - n. - The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects. See Illust. under Hydroidea.
- Coltsfoot - n. - A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.
- Hydrastine - n. - 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.
- Cespitose - a. - Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
- Ginger - n. - The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.
- Senegin - n. - A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.
- Sanguinaria - n. - The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
- Cohosh - n. - A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family.
- Turmeric - n. - 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 slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste. It is used for a dye, a medicine, a condiment, and a chemical test.
- Veratralbine - n. - A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.
- Orris - n. - A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.
- Methysticin - n. - 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.
- Puttyroot - n. - An American 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.
- Barometz - n. - 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.
- Bloodroot - n. - A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.