Definition of jack-in-the-pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit
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| jack-in-the-pulpit - 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 | ||
| aroid, arum any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe | ||
| jack-in-the-pulpit - 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 | ||
| aroid, arum any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe | ||
| genus arum type genus of the Araceae: tuberous perennial herbs of Europe and Asia with usually heart-shaped leaves | ||
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