Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun skunk_cabbage

2 senses of skunk cabbage

Sense 1
skunk cabbage, polecat weed, foetid pothos, Symplocarpus foetidus -- (deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe)
       => marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant -- (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Sense 2
skunk cabbage, Lysichiton americanum -- (clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe)
       => marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant -- (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)