papoose root (paposrot)

The blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides. Its root is said some to be an emmenagogue. papoosh (pa-pösh'), n. Same as baboosh. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 183. pappan (pap'an), n. [Malay: see mias.] orang-utan. See mias. pappas, n. See papas. Pappea (pap'e-ä), n. [NL. (Ecklon and Zeyher, 1835), named after Karl W. L. Pappe, who wrote on the flora of Leipsic, 1827-8.] A small hard-wood tree, a genus of a single South African species, P. Capensis, belonging to the polypetalous order Sapindaceæ and the tribe Nephe lieæ, distinguished by the regular flowers, solitary ovules, deep-lobed or divided fruit, and unequally five-lobed calyx. The oblong leaves are crowded at the end of the spreading branches, and have between them panicled racemes of minute flowers followed by an edible red fruit of two or three hard globose lobes, the size of a cherry, and known as wild plum and wild prune, a source of vinegar, wine, and oil. The handsome wood is made into small furniture, etc. pappiferous (pa-pif'e-rus), a. [ IMG:content-2264.png:[blocks in formation] pus.