English noun: jack-in-the-pulpit | |||
1. | jack-in-the-pulpit (plant) 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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | aroid, arum | ||
Member meronym | Arisaema, genus Arisaema | ||
2. | jack-in-the-pulpit (plant) 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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | aroid, arum | ||
Part holonym | arum | ||
Member meronym | genus Arum | ||