Definition of puttyroot
English to English noun - North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers
source: WordNet 3.0 - 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.
source: Webster 1913
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puttyroot, patriot, pityroid, peterwort, patriotic, putridity, putrid, petrohyoid, patriotism, pay dirt, poudrette, petard, peter out, pteriidae, potato wart, phthiriidae, podurid, podrida, powdered
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