jack-in-the-pulpit

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jack-in-the-pulpit Definition

• (n) common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
• (n) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum

jack-in-the-pulpit Synonyms

• Arisaema atrorubens
• Arisaema triphyllum
• Arum maculatum
• cuckoopint
• Indian turnip
• jack-in-the-pulpit
• lords-and-ladies
• wake-robin