jack-in-the-pulpit Meaning, Definition & Usage
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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; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip.
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noun common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
cuckoopint; Arum maculatum; lords-and-ladies.