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Jack-in-the-pulpit   Listen
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jack-in-the-pulpit  n.  
1.
A common American spring-flowering woodland herb (Arisaema triphyllum) having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries; also called Indian turnip.
Synonyms: Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens.
2.
A common European arum (Arum maculatum) with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring and is a source of a sagolike starch called arum.
Synonyms: cuckoo-pint, cuckoopint, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum.






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"Jack-in-the-pulpit" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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, wake-robin, lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum, Indian turnip, genus Arisaema, arum, Arisaema, cuckoopint, Arisaema triphyllum



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