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Canaigre

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canaigre (kənī`grē): see buckwheat buckwheat, common name for certain members of the Polygonaceae, a family of herbs and shrubs found chiefly in north temperate areas and having a characteristic pungent juice containing oxalic acid. Species native to the United States are most common in the West.
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Canaigre 

(Rumex hymenosepalus), a perennial plant of the genus Rumex, approximately 1 m in height. It grows wild in the southern United States and in Mexico. The radical tubers contain tannides, which are used to tan soft leather.
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But since oak trees were not plentiful in New Mexico, canaigre, a plant whose roots were rich in the same acid, was used as a substitute.
WORKING LEATHER WAS A PART OF FRONTIER LIFE, GOODS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Today, canaigre root and mangel-wurzel beets are probably not the household items they were in 1900, when A.
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