9-Letter Words That End With: ROOT

• coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers

• trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth

• North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers

• a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers

• any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

• any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic

• a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant

• white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch

• canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained

• perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant

• densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots

• hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea