lords-and-ladies

lords-and-la·dies

(lôrdz′ən-lā′dēz)pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) See cuckoopint.

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[From its variably colored spadices, the purple ones being considered the lords and the light ones the ladies.]

lords-and-ladies

n (Plants) (functioning as singular) another name for cuckoopint

Thesaurus

Noun

1.lords-and-ladies - common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arumArum maculatum, cuckoopint, jack-in-the-pulpitaroid, arum - any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathegenus Arum - type genus of the Araceae: tuberous perennial herbs of Europe and Asia with usually heart-shaped leavesarum - starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root