Definition of "crinkle-root" []

• North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "_ Every school child in the country digs out and eats the pleasant peppery crinkle-root."
• "The memory of my youthful Sundays is fragrant with wintergreens, black birch, and crinkle-root, to say nothing of the harvest apples that grew in our neighbor's orchard; and the memory of my Sundays in later years is fragrant with arbutus, and the showy orchid, and wild strawberries, and touched with the sanctity of woodland walks and hilltops."
• "I never yet got one, though I have found many of the crinkle-root salads."