sweetrootとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

sweetroot (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sweetroots)

1. liquorice
2. western sweet cicely, western sweetroot (Osmorhiza occidentalis)
   • 1997, Gregory L. Tilford, Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West, Sweetroot, Osmorrhiza occidentalis, page 142:

     Like other members of this large family, sweetroot presents its tiny flowers in terminal, umbrella-shaped inflorescences that do little to assure us that the plant is not the deadly water hemlock (Cicula douglasii)

   • 2009, Ray S. Vizgirdas, ‎Edna M. Rey-Vizgirdas, Wild Plants of the Sierra Nevada, page 64:

     The plant is sometimes confused with Osmorhiza chilensis (western sweetroot), which often shares the same habitat. However, unlike red baneberry, sweetroot has a strong licorice-like odor.