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jack-in-the-pulpit

noun

1 jack-in-the-pulpit

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.

2 jack-in-the-pulpit

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.

Polish: obrazki plamiste


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