DCHP-3

skunk lily

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a plant of the Rocky Mountain region, Lysichiton camtschatensis, so called because of its resemblance to the skunk cabbage of the East.

See: skunk cabbage(def. 2)

Quotations

1938
Charred and blackened ugliness everywhere . . . Occasionally a patch of bracken, brightly green, freakishly untouched by fire. Skunk lilies in a marshy pool.