puttyroot

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun puttyroot has 1 sense

puttyroot(n = noun.plant) adam-and-eve, aplectrum hyemale - North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers;

is a kind of orchid, orchidaceous plant

is a member of aplectrum, genus aplectrum

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CIDE DICTIONARY

puttyroot, n.

An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve. [1913 Webster]