'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]