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skunk-cabbage N. Amer.
Also skunk's cabbage.
[f. skunk n.]
A perennial stemless plant of the arum family, Symplocarpus fœtidus, giving out an offensive odour, especially when bruised. Also used, esp. on the Pacific Coast, to designate Lẏsichiton camtschatcense, another member of the family Araceæ, or a false hellebore of the genus Veratrum, of the family Liliaceæ.
1751J. Eliot Ess. Field-Husbandry iii. 66 Take the Roots of Swamp Hellebore, sometimes called Skunk Cabbage, Tickle Weed. 1762Eliot in Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 156 The roots of swamp hellebore (known in different places by the several names of skunk cabbage, tickle weed, bear root). 1792J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 127 The arum, or skunk cabbage, has been found very efficacious in asthmatic complaints. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 287 The root and seeds of the Skunk Cabbage, Symplocarpus fœtida, are powerful antispasmodics. 1849N. Kingsley Jrnl. 3 May (1914) 15 The fruit grows on the extreme top with a blow or flower resembling our Skunks Cabbage. 1868H. W. Beecher Norwood 91 The great, succulent leaves of the skunk's cabbage were fully expanded. 1878Mrs. Stowe Poganuc P. xvii. 147 The honest, great green leaves of the old skunk cabbage, most refreshing to the eye in its hardy, succulent greenness, though an abomination to the nose. 1906Atlantic Monthly Oct. 495 The first flower to bloom in this latitude when the winter frost loosens its grip upon the sod is the gross, uncouth, and noisome skunk cabbage. 1950Chicago Tribune 28 Mar. 14/3 Some watch for skunk cabbages poking mottled brown snouts thru the swamp muck. 1968Peterson & McKenny Field Guide to Wildflowers 368 Skunk Cabbage... The sheathing, shell-like spathe, mottled and varying from green to purple-brown, envelops the heavy rounded spadix. 1976Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 1148/1 Veratrum..californicum E. Durand. Corn lily, skunk cabbage. |