1.
[syn: jack-in-the-pulpit, Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
jack-in-the-pulpit \jack-in-the-pulpit\ n.
1. A common American spring-flowering woodland herb
(Aris[ae]ma triphyllum) having sheathing leaves and an
upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and
purple spathe producing scarlet berries; also called
Indian turnip.
Syn: Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum,
Arisaema atrorubens.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. 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 called arum.
Syn: cuckoo-pint, cuckoopint, lords and ladies,
lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Arisaema atrorubens
n 1: common American spring-flowering woodland herb having
sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with
overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet
berries [syn: jack-in-the-pulpit, Indian turnip, wake-
robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens]