Definition of "flagroot" []

• Perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Next to smell came taste, and the children knew the taste of everything they saw or touched, from penny-royal and flagroot to the shell of a pignut and the letters of a spelling-book: —the taste of A-B, AB, suddenly revived on the boy’s tongue sixty years afterwards."
• "Therein she kept her keys, her smelling-bottle, her pocket-book, her handkerchief and her spectacles, a bit of flagroot and some liquorice stick."
• "This adjective "blamed" is the virtuous oath by which simple people, who are improving their habits, cure themselves of a stronger epithet, as men take to flagroot who are abandoning tobacco."