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Jack-in-the-pulpit   /dʒæk-ɪn-ðə-pˈʊlpɪt/   Listen
Jack-in-the-pulpit

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, Indian turnip, wake-robin.
2.
Common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum.  Synonyms: Arum maculatum, cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies.






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"Jack-in-the-pulpit" Quotes from Famous Books



... seasons would halt. Though science lay me by the heels, I'll assert that the crocus, which is a pioneer on the windy borderland of March, would not show its head except on the sounding of the hurdy-gurdy. I'll not deny that flowers pop up their heads afield without such call, that the jack-in-the-pulpit speaks its maiden sermon on some other beckoning of nature. But in the city it is the hurdy-gurdy that gives notice of the turning of the seasons. On its sudden blare I've seen the green stalk of the daffodil jiggle. If ...
— Journeys to Bagdad • Charles S. Brooks



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