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Jack-in-the-pulpit   /dʒæk-ɪn-ðə-pˈʊlpɪt/   Listen
Jack-in-the-pulpit

noun
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.  Synonyms: Arisaema atrorubens, Arisaema triphyllum, Indian turnip, wake-robin.
2.
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.






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"Jack-in-the-pulpit" Quotes from Famous Books



... hepaticas on the 7th of April, and anemones a little later. Violets, shooting-stars, Solomon's-seal, wild geranium, and jack-in-the-pulpit are in blossom now (May 14), as well as other wild flowers. I have seen woodpeckers, orioles, lots of robins and blue jays, brown thrushes, and bluebirds. When I was going out in the yard this morning I ...
— Harper's Young People, June 1, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... above the fruit zone and among the olive groves. The high walls had disappeared, and the path ascended by a series of steps. Gray olive trees were on either side, and on the bordering banks grew lovely wild flowers, starry purple anemones, jack-in-the-pulpit lilies, yellow oxalis, moon-daisies, and the beautiful genista which we treasure as a conservatory plant in England. As it was country the girls were allowed to break rank, and keenly enjoyed gathering bouquets; they scrambled up the banks, ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil

... breeze. Here Oberon and Titania might sleep beneath a bower of motionless royal Osmunda. Here Puck might have a noon-tide council with Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed, holding forth to them in whispers, beneath the green and purple sounding-board of a Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Here, even in this age of reason, the mystery of nature wove its magic round the curious mind ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke



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