jack-in-the-pulpit
1. common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries • Syn: Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens • Hypernyms: arum, aroid • Member Holonyms: Arisaema, genus Arisaema 2. common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum • Syn: cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum • Hypernyms: arum, aroid • Member Holonyms: genus Arum • Part Meronyms: arum
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