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Jack-in-the-pulpit

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: Arisaema atrorubens, Arisaema triphyllum, Indian turnip, wake-robin.

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

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Words linked to "Jack-in-the-pulpit" : genus Arisaema, aroid, lords-and-ladies, arum, genus Arum, Arisaema, Arum maculatum