[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
[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