|  jack-in-the-pulpit 
 
 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:
 Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens
 • Hypernyms:
 arum, aroid
 • Member Holonyms:
 Arisaema, genus Arisaema
 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, Arum maculatum
 • Hypernyms:
 arum, aroid
 • Member Holonyms:
 genus Arum
 • Part Meronyms:
 arum
 
 
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