English noun: skunk cabbage | |||
1. | skunk cabbage (plant) deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe | ||
Synonyms | foetid pothos, polecat weed, Symplocarpus foetidus | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant | ||
Member meronym | genus Symplocarpus, Symplocarpus | ||
2. | skunk cabbage (plant) clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe | ||
Synonyms | Lysichiton americanum | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant | ||