skunk-cabbage
Nouns
- (n) 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,
- (n) clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe Lysichiton americanum,