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.