noun
American plant with cream-colored flowers and tuberous roots resembling kernels of corn
• Syn: ↑Dicentra canadensis
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
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noun : a No. American herb (Dicentra canadensis) with delicate much-divided leaves and a scapose raceme of cream-colored flowers growing from a cluster of small tubers borne on the rootstock
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an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
[1835-45, Amer.]
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squirrel corn,
an American herb of the fumitory family, having finely divided leaves, cream-colored, heart-shaped flowers, and small tubers which resemble kernels of corn.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.