| 单词 | skunk cabbage |
| 释义 | skunk cabbage (once / 125738 pages) n WORD FAMILY skunk cabbage: skunk cabbages USAGE EXAMPLESToday salmonberry and snowberry, cedars, Sitka spruce and red osier dogwood, even skunk cabbage create a densely vegetated red cedar swamp worthy of Sasquatch. Seattle Times(Oct 21, 2016) “Dr. Bulkeley sent me to find some skunk cabbage,” he explained, waving a bunch of green. Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond(1958) The road wound through the interior of the island, and crossed a cedar bog, where skunk cabbage and carnivorous pitcher plants grow among the sphagnum. New York Times(May 18, 2016) 1n deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe Syn|Hyper Symplocarpus foetidus, foetid pothos, polecat weed 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 2n clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe Syn|Hyper Lysichiton americanum 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 |
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