1) Early spring forest growth 2) Foul-smelling swamp plant 3) Malodorous plant 
any of three species of plants that grow in bogs and meadows of temperate regions. In eastern North America the skunk cabbage is Symplocarpus ...
Skunk-cabbage is a plant of the family Araceae so named for its smell. The root and seeds are antispasmodic and were at one time used to treat asthma.
[n] - deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe 2. [n] - clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe
foetid pothos noun deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe