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Meanings of jack-in-the-pulpit in English
Russian
arisaema triphyllum Portuguese
arisaema triphyllum Spanish
arisaema atrorubens var. viride Catalan
arisaema triphyllum 
Common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries.
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Common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum.
Synonyms
Examples for "wake-robin"
Examples for "wake-robin"
1
Here he came upon evidences of a meal which the rival had made upon wake-robin roots.
2
Fresh green heads of bosky ferns and wake-robin were pushing up through the old mats of last year's foliage.
3
You will know where to find the yellow violet, and the wake-robin, and the pink lady-slipper, and the scarlet sage, and the fringed gentian.
4
Some brought handfuls of columbine from rocky nooks, and others the purple trillium, that is near of kin to Burroughs's white "wake-robin."
5
A meal of grubs and peppery wake-robin roots left him happy, but still he rambled on, following his nose and alert for any new adventure.
1
The juice was expressed from a considerable quantity of the mashed Indian turnip.
2
The same operations were repeated upon the Indian turnip with exactly similar results.
3
But the fish and Indian turnip being none of the best, we made but a sorry meal.
4
Vegetation is very scanty; the Indian turnip, however, is common, as is also a species of cactus.
5
In early summer the best forage is on the warm hill-sides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow.
Usage of jack-in-the-pulpit in English
1
Dieffenbachias are tropical cousins of the jack-in-the-pulpit.
2
The cheeky forest flower jack-in-the-pulpit produces ten times more seeds if it is pollinated by a scientist rather than by a fly.
3
But he couldn't see Uncle Wiggily because he was safely hidden in the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
4
Then the Jack-in-the-pulpit closed down the umbrella top over the rabbit, and he was hidden away as nice and snug as could be wished.
Translations for jack-in-the-pulpit
Russian
Portuguese
Spanish
arisaema atrorubens var. viridearum triphyllum var viridearum triphyllum var. pallescensarum triphyllum var virensarisaema pusillumarisaema atrorubens f zebrinumarum triphyllum var atrorubensarisaema atrorubens f. pallascensarisaema acuminatumarum triphyllum var atropurpureumarum atrorubensarisaema quinatum var obtusoquinatumarisaema triphyllumarisaema deflexumarisaema atrorubens f pallascensarisaema atrorubens var. zebrinumalocasia triphyllaaro
Catalan