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puttyroot

N พืช กล้วยไม้ พวก  Aplectrum hyemale

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PUTTYROOT

PUTTYROOT Put "ty *root `, n. (Bot. )

 

Defn: 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.