Function: noun
Date: 1751
: either of two No. American perennial herbs of the arum family that occur in shaded wet to swampy areas and have a fetid odor suggestive of a skunk: a : one ( Symplocarpus foetidus ) of eastern No. America that sends up in spring a cowl-shaped brownish-purple spathe b : one ( Lysichitum americana ) chiefly of the Pacific coast region that has a large yellow spathe
skunk cabbage