FOETID POTHOS

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Meaning:

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; skunk cabbage; Symplocarpus foetidus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("foetid pothos" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Holonyms ("foetid pothos" is a member of...):

genus Symplocarpus; Symplocarpus (one species: skunk cabbage)

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