jack-in-the-pulpit

英['dʒækɪnðə'pʊlpɪt] 美['dʒækɪnðə'pʊlpɪt]
  • n.[植]印度天南星
Noun:
  1. common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries

  2. common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum

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