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puttyroot
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; Array is a kind of orchid, orchidaceous plant
is a member of aplectrum, genus aplectrum
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]
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