beaver root

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of water lily, Nymphaea odorata.

Quotations

1822

They also subsist on the large roots of the white, scented water-lily, called by the Indians beaver-root. . . .

1907

The Newfoundland beavers subsist largely on the root of the water-lily . . . called by the Indians "beaver root."