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Noun: polecat weed
  1. Deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
    - skunk cabbage, foetid pothos, Symplocarpus foetidus

Derived forms: polecat weeds

Type of: bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant

Part of: genus Symplocarpus, Symplocarpus

Encyclopedia: Polecat weed