Bitterroot

Definition: Bitterroot

Bitterroot

Noun

1. Showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower.

Synonym: Bitterroot

Synonym: Lewisia rediviva (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Bitterroot

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Bitterroot is a small, low, pink flower with yellow center known to grow in the vicinity of Missoula, Montana. Its range is threatened, and is now found in abundance only on Waterworks Hill, a small hill to the north of Missoula that forms the southwest boundary to the Rattlesnake Creek drainage.

The flower was known and consumed by the Flathead Indians for the roots. The roots were not a common part of the diet, but were rather an infrequent delicacy.

The Bitterroot was selected to be the Montana State Flower on February 27, 1895. Two major geographic features, the Bitterroot Mountains (running North-South and forming the divide between Idaho and Montana), and the Bitterroot River (also running North-South, terminating in the Clark Fork River in the city of Missoula), owe the origins of their name to this flower.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bitterroot."

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Commercial Usage: Bitterroot

Domain	Title
Books	In the Heart of the Bitterroot Mountains: The Story of the Carlin Hunting Party, September-December 1893 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bitterroot

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Photo Album: Bitterroot

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	Farshot of Bitterroot wildflowers and buds.Credit: John Craig.		Medium hot of Bitterroot wildflower and Tolmie's onion.Credit: John Craig.
	Closeup of Bitterroot wildflowers and buds.Credit: John Craig.		Bitterroot Lewisia vediviva, south of Square Mountain in the Rincon WSA. (2-82).Credit: Scott Moore.
	Bitterroot Valley, Montana. Branding calf.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Bitterroot

"Bitterroot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Bitterroot" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bitterroot

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
bitterroot	50	bitterroot wilderness	3
bitterroot national forest	14	bitterroot flower picture	3
bitterroot valley	14	bitterroot selway	2
bitterroot mountain	12	bitterroot estate montana real	2
bitterroot flower	11	bitterroot star	2
bitterroot motor	10	bitterroot picture	2
bitterroot valley real estate	7	bitterroot humane society	2
bitterroot management property	6	bitterroot property	2
bitterroot river	6	bitterroot valley mt real estate	2
bitterroot valley montana	6	bitterroot chamber commerce valley	2
real estate bitterroot valley montana	5	bitterroot fishing fly	2
bitterroot estate real	5	bitterroot home mt sale valley	2
bitterroot ranch	5	bitterroot home sale valley	2
bitterroot restoration	5	bitterroot plant	2
bitterroot job service	4	bitterroot home montana sale valley	2
bitterroot montana	4
		bitterroot home montana sale valley	2
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Modern Translations: Bitterroot

Language		Translations for "bitterroot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Blackfoot		áíksikksiksi. (various references)

Pig Latin		itterrootbay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bitterroot

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bitterroot": bitterroots. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bitterroot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: butterwort. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bitterroot"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bitterroot" (pronounced bi"terruw't)
3	-r uw' t	arrowroot, breadfruit, grapefruit, grassroot.
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Anagrams: Bitterroot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-i-o-o-r-r-t-t-t"
	-3 letters: orbiter, rootier, trotter.
	-4 letters: bettor, bitter, bootie, orbier, reboot, retort, rioter, ritter, rooter, rotter, territ, titter, tooter, torero, totter, triter.
	-5 letters: biter, boite, borer, brier, britt, oorie, orbit, otter, retro, robot, rotor, rotte, titer, titre, torot, torte, toter, tribe, trier, trite.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-i-o-o-r-r-t-t-t"
	+1 letter: bitterroots.
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