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Puttyroot

Puttyroot Meaning & Definition
Puttyroot Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Puttyroot?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Puttyroot: adam-and-eve | Aplectrum hyemale

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See Also | Aplectrum | genus Aplectrum | orchid | orchidaceous plant

Puttyroot In Webster's Dictionary

\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}.

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