Found 2 items, similar to puttyroot.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: puttyroot puttyroot n : North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers [syn: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Puttyroot 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]