'Puttyroot' definitions:
Definition of 'puttyroot'
From: WordNet
noun
North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish- brown flowers [syn: puttyroot, adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale]
Definition of 'Puttyroot'
From: 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]