adam-and-eve n 1: North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish- brown flowers [syn: {puttyroot}, {adam-and-eve}, {Aplectrum hyemale}]
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}. [1913 Webster]
adam-and-eve \adam-and-eve\ n. 1. North American orchid ({Aplectrum hyemale}) bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers. Syn: puttyroot. [WordNet 1.5]