Definition of "redroot" []

• An eastern North American bog plant (Lachnanthes caroliana) having red roots and woolly yellow flowers. (noun)
• A coarse cosmopolitan weed (Amaranthus retroflexus) having hairy leaves and stout terminal panicles with dense lateral spikes of green flowers. (noun)
• See ceanothus. (noun)

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• "The weeds commonly called redroot or iron-weed are very good for this."
• "A former teacher and survivor of the Khmer Rouge, a regime that slaughtered more 20 percent of the Cambodian population in the 1970s, Kim sells sweet potatoes, redroot pigweed and tomatoes to Boston-based Tropical Foods and stores in Maine."
• "THE NEXT DAY, I'm scrambling over chest-high brambles of redroot and busted pieces of cattle trough when a rooster pops up 5 feet ahead, catches a 35-mph wind, and streaks away, cackling like a Halloween witch."