The Collaborative International Dictionary
jack-in-the-pulpit \jack-in-the-pulpit\ n.
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A woodland plant of northern Europe, ''Arum maculatum''. 2 A plant in the northeastern North America, ''Arisaema triphyllum''. 3 (context game English) cat's cradle n. 1 A woodland plant of northern Europe, ''Arum maculatum''. 2 A plant in the northeastern North America, ''Arisaema triphyllum''. 3 (context game English) cat's cradle
WordNet
n. common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries [syn: Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens]
common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum [syn: cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum]
Usage examples of "jack-in-the-pulpit".
It was clearly related to the little Jack-In-The-Pulpit that Jon often came across during his rambles through the woodlands, but when this plant was compared to the homey little native it stood out like an oak to a shrub.
Each plant was like a large jack-in-the-pulpit or love-in-a-mist or fever-tree flower, in that each thick stemmed bloom was canopied and bowered by great dark green leaves of the sort botanists called spathes and bracts.
Above all, there would be wildflowers in dazzling profusion, blossoming from every twig, pushing valiantly through the fertile litter on the forest floor, carpeting every sunny slope and stream bank—trillium and trailing arbutus, Dutchmen’s breeches, jack-in-the-pulpit, mandrake, violets, snowy bluets, buttercups and bloodroot, dwarf iris, columbine and wood sorrel, and other cheerful, nodding wonders almost beyond counting.
Above all, there would be wildflowers in dazzling profusion, blossoming from every twig, pushing valiantly through the fertile litter on the forest floor, carpeting every sunny slope and stream bank--trillium and trailing arbutus, Dutchmen's breeches, jack-in-the-pulpit, mandrake, violets, snowy bluets, buttercups and bloodroot, dwarf iris, columbine and wood sorrel, and other cheerful, nodding wonders almost beyond counting.
Every couple of hours the shaman would prepare various infusions of herbs to speed the boy's healingred alder and green hellebore with a sliced corm of a jack-in-the-pulpit.