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ALL meanings of skunk cabbage

skunk cab·bage
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  • noun skunk cabbage a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground. 1
  • noun skunk cabbage a related plant, Lysichiton americanum, of western North America, having a cluster of green leaves and a spike of flowers surrounded by a yellow spathe. 1
  • noun skunk cabbage a low-growing fetid aroid swamp plant, Symplocarpus foetidus of E North America, having broad leaves and minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple spathe 0
  • noun skunk cabbage a similar aroid plant, Lysichitum americanum, of the W coast of North America and N Asia 0
  • noun skunk cabbage a perennial E North American plant (Symplocarpus foetidus) of the arum family, growing in wet soil and having large, cabbagelike leaves, a spadix of small flowers concealed in a purple, hooded spathe, and a disagreeable smell 0
  • noun skunk cabbage a similar plant (Lysichitum americanum) of the arum family of W North America 0
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