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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


SynonymsArisaema atrorubens, Arisaema triphyllum, Indian turnip, wake-robin


Broader (hypernym)aroid, arum


Member meronymArisaema, 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


SynonymsArum maculatum, cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies


Broader (hypernym)aroid, arum


Part holonymarum


Member meronymgenus Arum









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