Akademik

skunk cabbage
noun
1. deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
Syn: ↑polecat weed, ↑foetid pothos, ↑Symplocarpus foetidus
Hypernyms: ↑marsh plant, ↑bog plant, ↑swamp plant
Member Holonyms: ↑Symplocarpus, ↑genus Symplocarpus
2. clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe
Syn: ↑Lysichiton americanum
Hypernyms: ↑marsh plant, ↑bog plant, ↑swamp plant

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noun [noncount]
: a North American plant that grows in wet, shady areas and that produces a strong odor

Useful english dictionary. 2012.