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noun

jack-in-the-pulpit n.

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.

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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Etymology of 'Jack-in-the-pulpit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... above the fruit zone and among the olive groves. The high walls had disappeared, and the path ascended by a series of steps. Gray olive trees were on either side, and on the bordering banks grew lovely wild flowers, starry purple anemones, jack-in-the-pulpit lilies, yellow oxalis, moon-daisies, and the beautiful genista which we treasure as a conservatory plant in England. As it was country the girls were allowed to break rank, and keenly enjoyed gathering bouquets; they scrambled up the banks, ...

— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil

... breeze. Here Oberon and Titania might sleep beneath a bower of motionless royal Osmunda. Here Puck might have a noon-tide council with Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed, holding forth to them in whispers, beneath the green and purple sounding-board of a Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Here, even in this age of reason, the mystery of nature wove its magic round the curious mind ...

— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke

Words linked to "Jack-in-the-pulpit" : aroid, Arum maculatum, Arisaema, arum, Indian turnip, wake-robin, lords-and-ladies, Arisaema triphyllum, genus Arisaema, cuckoopint