jack-in-the-pulpit

1. (noun) common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
Synonyms: Arisaema atrorubens, Arisaema triphyllum, Indian turnip, wake-robin
Related Words: aroid, arum

2. (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a sagolike starch called arum
Synonyms: Arum maculatum, cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies
Related Words: aroid, arum



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