Any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe.
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Examples for "cuckoopint"
Examples for "cuckoopint"
1Why do these intensely acrid, aroid plants lose their acridity on being heated?
2"If I am beaten I will be your slave, and look after your aroids and wild caladiums on which all Water-snails feed."
1Perenelle immediately thought of the beautiful plants of the arum family.
2Also on a table stood a great bowl of arum lilies.
3The root of the arum is remarkably warm and pungent.
4She handed the arum back to Phillips, who looked uncomfortable.
5The torrent-bed, now bright green with arum and pepper, grows vegetables, maize, and cactus.
6Much more use of the arum lily should be made for a number of reasons.
7The deep hearth was filled with arum lilies and azalias, like a font at Easter.
8The common white arum lily is Zantedeschia aethiopica, although it has no connection with Ethiopia.
9Right now the arum is king and a delight for being the foil to winter companions.
10You look like a long white arum lily.
11Nina wears a new belted dress and holds a bouquet of white arum lilies from Latvia.
12I observed a bulbous plant growing in this creek resembling the Egyptian arum; it was just springing.
13And the arum summed up the problem.
14Phillips twisted the arum a few more times and then shook the small gemstone from its heart.
15He stretched himself where he rested amongst the arum-whitened grass, and took his cigaretto from his mouth:
16He turned suddenly from that gloomy contemplation of the arum lily, and met her face to face.