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Indian turnip   /ˈɪndiən tˈərnəp/   Listen
Indian turnip

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.  Synonyms: Arisaema atrorubens, Arisaema triphyllum, jack-in-the-pulpit, wake-robin.






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"Indian turnip" Quotes from Famous Books



... this work until Henry also made a catch and then they gathered more plums and berries. They dug up, too, the root of the Indian turnip, an herb that burnt the mouth like fire, but which Henry said they could use, after soaking it a long time in water. Then they discussed the matter of the fish trap which they thought they could make in a day's work. This would relieve them of much toil, but they deferred ...
— The Young Trailers - A Story of Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler

... to and brought her samples of ginger leaves, Indian hemp, queen-of-the-meadow, cone-flower, burdock, baneberry, and Indian turnip, as he harvested them in turn. When they came to the large beds of orange pleurisy root the Girl cried out ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter



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