Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Puttyroot

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Puttyroot


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(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.