puttyroot

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

puttyroot
    n 1: North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-
         brown flowers [syn: {puttyroot}, {adam-and-eve}, {Aplectrum
         hyemale}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]