skunk cabbage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
    foetid pothos; polecat weed; Symplocarpus foetidus.
  2. noun clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe
    Lysichiton americanum.

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