JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT





Definition:

  1. [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
    Synonyms: Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens

  2. [noun] common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
    Synonyms: cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum

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