puttyroot

1. 1.

   North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers

   Synonymsadam-and-eveAplectrum hyemale

   Broaderorchid

   Part ofAplectrum

Other forms of puttyroot

plural

puttyroots·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about puttyroot

What does puttyroot mean?

puttyroot means "North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers".

How many syllables are in puttyroot?

puttyroot has 3 syllables: put-ty-root. The stress falls on "put".

What is another word for puttyroot?

Close synonyms include adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is puttyroot a common word?

puttyroot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.