skunk cabbage

skunk cabbage

noun
1.
a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
2.
a related plant, Lysichiton americanum, of western North America, having a cluster of green leaves and a spike of flowers surrounded by a yellow spathe.

Origin:
1745–55, Americanism
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skunk cabbage
 
n
1.  a low-growing fetid aroid swamp plant, Symplocarpus foetidus of E North America, having broad leaves and minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple spathe
2.  a similar aroid plant, Lysichitum americanum, of the W coast of North America and N Asia

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