jack-in-the-pulpit
Nouns
- (n) common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries Arisaema atrorubens, Arisaema triphyllum, Indian turnip, wake-robin,
- (n) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum Arum maculatum, cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies,