NOUN
- 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
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- A former teacher and survivor of the Khmer Rouge, a regime that slaughtered more 20 percent of the Cambodian population in the 1970s, Kim sells sweet potatoes, redroot pigweed and tomatoes to Boston-based Tropical Foods and stores in The Seattle Times
- Certain common weeds, such as black nightshade, redroot pigweed, lamb's-quarters, and horsenettle will also support growth of the Verticillium fungus, and fields with a high population of these weeds should also be avoided.
- The virus infects most Allium species and also is known to infect some ornamentals (iris, lisianthus) and some weeds (jimsonweed, tobacco, redroot pigweed) (UC-IPM). Western Farm Press RSS Feed
- The weeds commonly called redroot or iron-weed are very good for this. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
- A former teacher and survivor of the Khmer Rouge, a regime that slaughtered more 20 percent of the Cambodian population in the 1970s, Kim sells sweet potatoes, redroot pigweed and tomatoes to Boston-based Tropical Foods and stores in Maine. New Entry Sustainable Farming Project Turns Refugees Into Farmers
- THE NEXT DAY, I'm scrambling over chest-high brambles of redroot and busted pieces of cattle trough when a rooster pops up 5 feet ahead, catches a 35-mph wind, and streaks away, cackling like a Halloween witch. The Texas Panhandle: Home to Some of America's Best Pheasant Hunting
- It does indeed look like a kind of forethought in the redroot. Winter Sunshine
- Weed populations were dense and consisted of common lambsquarters, hairy nightshade, redroot pigweed, stinkgrass, and common purslane.
- A former teacher and survivor of the Khmer Rouge, a regime that slaughtered more 20 percent of the Cambodian population in the 1970s, Kim sells sweet potatoes, redroot pigweed and tomatoes to Boston-based Tropical Foods and stores in Maine. New Entry Sustainable Farming Project Turns Refugees Into Farmers
- One March, during a deep snow, a large flock of buntings stayed about my vineyards for several days, feeding upon the seeds of redroot and other weeds that stood above the snow. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers