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 Tet·ter·wort n. Bot. A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.
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 tetterwort
      n : perennial woodland native of North America having a red root
          and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leave and white
          flower in early spring and having acrid emetic
          properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant
          [syn: bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria
          canadensis]