bloodwort

blood +‎ wort

bloodwort (usually uncountable, plural bloodworts)

1. Any of various plants with red roots or leaves.
   1. The plant bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.
   2. Rumex sanguineus, bloody dock, wood dock, bloody-veined dock.
   3. Any of the Haemodoraceae, a family of flowering plants some of whose roots contain a red dye.
2. Any of various plants used or formerly used to staunch bleeding.
   1. Sanguinary, common yarrow, Achillea millefolium.
      • 1993, H K Bakhru, Herbs that Heal‎, page 185:

        Bloodwort is bitter, aromatic, stimulant, and tonic. It is useful in arresting bleeding.

   2. Various species in the genus Sanguisorba, burnet.
   3. Capsella bursa-pastoris, shepherd's purse.

• bloodwort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “bloodwort, n..”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2012.