What is Devil's Foot Root ?

Question

in adventure of sherlock holmes one used in a story .on that story said ' West African plant with a root shaped like a foot, half human, half goatlike' I'd like to know what this sentences mean ? it is very vague , a foot half human and half goatlike ?

Answer 1

dude, it means that the root looked a cross of a human foot and a hove(goat's). ^_^