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Jack-in-the-pulpit

noun

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.

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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... 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

Words linked to "Jack-in-the-pulpit" : genus Arum, Arisaema, arum, cuckoopint, genus Arisaema, lords-and-ladies, aroid