Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of plants, of the order Araceæ, type of the subtribe Symplocarpeæ; the skunk-cabbage.

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  • noun one species: skunk cabbage

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  • There where the sad _symplocarpus foetidus_ grows,

    A Nonsense Anthology Carolyn Wells 1902

  • The characteristic suggestion of this nature-lover is that the melancholic go to the woods and study the _symplocarpus foetidus_ (skunk cabbage), whose

    Why Worry? George Lincoln Walton 1897

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