North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots(noun)
WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
Use "crinkle-root" in a sentence
"_ 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."