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SYMPLOCARPUS FOETIDUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Symplocarpus foetidus mean? 

SYMPLOCARPUS FOETIDUS (noun)
  The noun SYMPLOCARPUS FOETIDUS has 1 sense:

1. deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spatheplay

  Familiarity information: SYMPLOCARPUS FOETIDUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SYMPLOCARPUS FOETIDUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

foetid pothos; polecat weed; skunk cabbage; Symplocarpus foetidus

Hypernyms ("Symplocarpus foetidus" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Holonyms ("Symplocarpus foetidus" is a member of...):

genus Symplocarpus; Symplocarpus (one species: skunk cabbage)


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