English dictionary
puttyroot
/'p/@/t/i/,r/u/t/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers
Source: WordNet 3.0
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An American orchidaceous plant (<i>Aplectrum hyemale</i>) 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 <i>Adam-and-Eve</i>.
Source: webster1913