Search Result for "aplectrum hyemale":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers;
[syn: puttyroot, adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Puttyroot \Put"ty*root`\, 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 Adam-and-Eve. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

adam-and-eve \adam-and-eve\ n. 1. North American orchid (Aplectrum hyemale) bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers. Syn: puttyroot. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Aplectrum hyemale n 1: North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish- brown flowers [syn: puttyroot, adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale]