Indian turnip Meaning, Definition & Usage

  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
    Arisaema atrorubens; wake-robin; jack-in-the-pulpit; Arisaema triphyllum.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), an American plant of the genus Arisæma. A. triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin.

Webster 1913