Definitions for: Puttyroot

[n] North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale

See Also: Aplectrum, genus Aplectrum, orchid, orchidaceous plant

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