Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Puttyroot \Put"ty*root`\, n. (Bot.)
   An American orchidaceous plant ({Aplectrum hyemale}) which
   flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces
   each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous
   matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen
   plaited leaf. Called also {Adam-and-Eve}.

Source : WordNet®

puttyroot
     n : North American orchid bearing a single leaf and
         yellowish-brown flowers [syn: {adam-and-eve}, {Aplectrum
         hyemale}]