puttyroot Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers
    adam-and-eve; Aplectrum hyemale.

WordNet

Put"ty*root` noun
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913