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Noun jack-in-the-pulpit has 2 senses
- jack-in-the-pulpit, Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens - common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
--1 is a kind of arum, aroid
--1 is a member of Arisaema, genus Arisaema
- cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum - common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
--2 is a kind of arum, aroid
--2 is a member of genus Arum
--2 has parts: arum
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