puttyroot > define
noun
- North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers.
- synonyms: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(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.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary