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jack-in-the-pulpit
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun jack-in-the-pulpit has 2 senses
- jack-in-the-pulpit(n = noun.plant) arisaema atrorubens, arisaema triphyllum, indian turnip, wake-robin - common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries; Array is a kind of aroid, arum
- jack-in-the-pulpit(n = noun.plant) arum maculatum, cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies - common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum; Array is a kind of aroid, arum
is a member of arisaema, genus arisaema
is a member of genus arum
has parts: arum
CIDE DICTIONARY
jack-in-the-pulpit, n.
- A common American spring-flowering woodland herb (
Arisæma triphyllum ) having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries; also calledIndian turnip . [WordNet 1.5] - A common European arum (
Arum maculatum ) with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring and is a source of a sagolike starch calledarum . [WordNet 1.5]
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