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Definition of Puttyroot
1. Noun. North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers.
Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Aplectrum, Genus Aplectrum
Definition of Puttyroot
1. 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.
Definition of Puttyroot
1. Noun. An American orchidaceous plant (''Aplectrum hyemale'') whose slender rootstock produces a solid corm filled with glutinous matter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Puttyroot
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Puttyroot
Literary usage of Puttyroot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Native Orchids: A Series of Drawings from Nature of All the Species by William Hamilton Gibson, Helena Dewey Leeming Jelliffe (1905)
"The other two are Calypso and the puttyroot. The Crane-fly puts forth a smooth,
ovate-pointed, young, reddish-purple leaf about the middle of September. ..."
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