puttyroot | (n) North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers, Syn. adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale |
Puttyroot | 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 |