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[syn: arum, aroid]
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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
cuckoopint \cuck"oo*pint`\, cuckoo-pint \cuck"oo-pint`\n.
a common European arum (Arum maculatum) with lanceolate
spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring,
and is the source of a sagolike starch called arum.
Syn: cuckoopint, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies,
jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Arum \A"rum\, n. [L. arum, aros, Gr. ?.]
A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the
Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a
spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example.
[1913 Webster]
Our common arums -- the lords and ladies of village
children. --Lubbock.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The American "Jack in the pulpit" is now separated from
the genus Arum.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
arum
n 1: starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint
root
2: any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on
a spadix surrounded by a large spathe [syn: arum, aroid]