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 jack-in-the-pul·pit /ˌʤækənðəˈpʊlˌpɪt, pət ||ˈpʌl-/

 jack-in-the-pulpit
      n 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 [syn: Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema
           triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens]
      2: common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple
         spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called
         arum [syn: cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, Arum
         maculatum]