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
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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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