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1. (n.) 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.
2. skunk cabbage
a related plant, Lysichiton americanum, of W North America, having a cluster of green leaves and a spike of flowers surrounded by a yellow spathe.
Etymology: (1745–55, Amer.)
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1. (noun) skunk cabbage, polecat weed, foetid pothos, Symplocarpus foetidus
deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
2. (noun) skunk cabbage, Lysichiton americanum
clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe
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