jack-in-the-pulpit

Meaning of word jack-in-the-pulpit from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

jack-in-the-pulpit noun

Meaning : 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

Meaning : 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

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