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Noun: jack-in-the-pulpit 'jakin dhu'pûlpit- Common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
- Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens - Common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
- cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum
Derived forms: jack-in-the-pulpits Type of: aroid, arum Part of: Arisaema, genus Arisaema, genus Arum Encyclopedia: Jack-in-the-pulpit |