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colicroot
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colicroot, n.
A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and Aletris aurea ). Called sometimes star grass , blackroot , blazing star , and unicorn root . [1913 Webster]
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