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Webster 1913 Edition
Puttyroot
Put′ty-rootˊ
,Noun.
(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
.