puttyroot

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puttyroot - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Puttyroot \Put"ty*root`\, n. (Bot.)
     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]

puttyroot - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  puttyroot
      n 1: North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-
           brown flowers [syn: puttyroot, adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale
           ]