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jack-in-the-pulpit
(encz) | jack-in-the-pulpit,jarní lesní květina n: Zdeněk Brož |
jack-in-the-pulpit
(gcide) | 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] |
jack-in-the-pulpit
(wn) | jack-in-the-pulpit
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]
2: common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple
spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called
arum [syn: cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, {jack-in-the-
pulpit}, Arum maculatum] |
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