What is "puttyroot"

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.

n. An American orchidaceous plant ((taxlink Aplectrum hyemale species noshow=1)) whose slender rootstock produces a solid corm filled with glutinous matter.

n. North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers [syn: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale]