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jack-in-the-pulpit

DEFINITIONS OF: jack-in-the-pulpit

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n 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
Type of:
aroid, arum
any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe

n 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
Type of:
aroid, arum
any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe
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