jack-in-the-pulpit

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noun

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