Definition of "toothwort" []

• Any of several eastern North American plants of the genus Cardamine, such as the crinkleroot, having fleshy rhizomes and palmately divided leaves. (noun)
• A parasitic European plant (Lathraea squamaria) having scaly cream-colored or pink stems and pinkish flowers. (noun)

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• "Hawk and I would push our way into the bush, plucking berries, digging up edible roots such as Indian potatoes and toothwort, pinching the heads from puffball mushrooms, stripping bark from hickory trees, which we boiled, to soften it."
• "He put the new bag among the others, taking time to consider the collection: toothwort, columbine, bloodroot."
• "Cut leaf toothwort is out, in the Central Ohio rain."