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goldthread
[ gohld-thred ]
noun
- a white-flowered plant, Coptis trifolia, of the buttercup family, having a slender, yellow root that is sometimes used as a tonic.
goldthread
/ ˈɡəʊldˌθrɛd /
noun
- a North American woodland ranunculaceous plant, Coptis trifolia (or C. groenlandica ), with slender yellow roots
- the root of this plant, which yields a medicinal tonic and a dye
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What could be more unassuming than goldthread and wood-sorrel?
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Goldthread was official in the United States Pharmacopoeia from 1820 to 1880.
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It is also applied to the stalk or petiole of a carpel, in the rare cases when there is any, as in Goldthread.
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Story-'n'-a-half house, a good sullar, an' woods nigh-by full o' sarsaparilla an' goldthread!
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I'm goin' into the pines arter some goldthread an' sarsaparil'.
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