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Arum maculatum   Listen
Arum maculatum

noun
1.
Common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum.  Synonyms: cuckoopint, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies.






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"Arum maculatum" Quotes from Famous Books



... crawl over the spadix. But here is no trap to catch the tiny benefactors such as is set by wicked Jack-in-the-pulpit, or the skunk-cabbage, or another cousin, a still more terrible executioner, the cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum) of Europe. ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan



Words linked to "Arum maculatum" :   aroid, cuckoopint, arum, genus Arum, jack-in-the-pulpit



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