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n.
[植]油灰根, 兰科植物

[ noun ]
North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers
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Puttyroot \Put"ty*root`\, n. (Bot.)
An American orchidaceous plant ({Aplectrum hyemale}) which
flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces
each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous
matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen
plaited leaf. Called also {Adam-and-Eve}.

adam-and-eve \adam-and-eve\ n.
1. North American orchid ({Aplectrum hyemale}) bearing a
single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers.

Syn: puttyroot.
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