skunk cabbage
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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