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