Skunk cabbage Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
foetid pothos; polecat weed; Symplocarpus foetidus.
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noun clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe
Lysichiton americanum.
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(Bot.) , an American aroid herb (Symplocarpus f&oe;tidus >) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves. It exhales a disagreeable odor. Also calledswamp cabbage .