pulpit : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter
  
  • the American presidency is a bully pulpit

WordNet

• 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.
  
• 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.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), the American plant Arisæma triphyllum, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix is inclosed.

Webster 1913