What is "arum maculatum"

jack-in-the-pulpit \jack-in-the-pulpit\ n.

1. A common American spring-flowering woodland herb ( Aris[ae]ma triphyllum) having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries; also called Indian turnip.

   Syn: 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.

   Syn: cuckoo-pint, cuckoopint, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum.

Lords and Ladies \Lords" and La"dies\n. (Bot.) The European wake-robin ( Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.
--Dr. Prior.

Sago \Sa"go\ (s[=a]"g[-o]), n. [Malay. s[=a]gu.] A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants ( Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.). Portland sago, a kind of sago prepared from the corms of the cuckoopint ( Arum maculatum). Sago palm. (Bot.)

1. A palm tree which yields sago.

2. A species of Cycas ( Cycas revoluta).

   Sago spleen (Med.), a morbid condition of the spleen, produced by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a cross section shows scattered gray translucent bodies looking like grains of sago.

Wake-robin \Wake"-rob`in\, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint ( Arum maculatum).

Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.

Cuckoopint \Cuck"oo*pint`\ (-p?nt`), n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Arum ( Arum maculatum); the European wake-robin.

cuckoopint \cuck"oo*pint`\, cuckoo-pint \cuck"oo-pint`\n. a common European arum ( Arum maculatum) with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring, and is the source of a sagolike starch called arum.

Syn: cuckoopint, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum.

Arum maculatum is a common woodland plant species of the Araceae family. It is widespread across most of Europe as well as Turkey and Caucasus. It is known by an abundance of common names including snakeshead, adder's root, arum, wild arum, arum lily, lords-and-ladies, devils and angels, cows and bulls, cuckoo-pint, Adam and Eve, bobbins, naked girls, naked boys, starch-root, wake robin, friar's cowl and jack in the pulpit. The name "lords-and-ladies" and other gender related names refer to the plant's likeness to male and female genitalia symbolising copulation.