cancer root
English
Noun
cancer root (plural cancer roots)
- Any of various low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, such as the beechdrops, the squawroot, etc.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cancer root”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)