Puttyroot

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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