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skunk cabbages

skunk cabbages is the plural of skunk cabbage.

Meaning of skunk cabbage

Noun

skunk cabbage (countable and uncountable, plural skunk cabbages)

  1. (Canada, US) Any of several leafy, foul-smelling plants, especially Symplocarpus foetidus, a low-growing plant native to the wetlands of eastern North America, but also denoting Lysichiton americanus and Lysichiton camtschatcense.
    • It was May before the skunk cabbage began to push up through the ooze of the swamps, before the rhubarb reddened to the back corner of the garden and the spring peepers finally emerged and began abrading the edges of the night with their lovesick vibrato.1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297

Questions about skunk cabbages

What is skunk cabbages the plural of?
Skunk cabbages is the plural of skunk cabbage.

Words near skunk cabbages in the dictionary

  1. skunk at a garden party
  2. skunk at the garden party
  3. skunk blackbird
  4. skunk blackbirds
  5. skunk cabbage
  6. skunk cabbages
  7. skunk dolphin
  8. skunk dolphins
  9. skunk grease
  10. skunk oil
  11. skunk pig

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