jack-in-the-pulpit

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These beauties are not true lilies at all, but members of the Arum family (which includes jack-in-the-pulpit, skunk cabbage and the house plants dieffenbachia and philodendron).

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  1. noun An eastern North American tuberous herb (Arisaema triphyllum) having a striped, leaflike spathe with a bent blade and three-lobed leaves. Also called regionally Indian turnip.

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  • These beauties are not true lilies at all, but members of the Arum family (which includes jack-in-the-pulpit, skunk cabbage and the house plants dieffenbachia and philodendron). —  RutlandHerald.com
  • There were sedgy plants in bloom, jack-in-the-pulpit, and what might have been a lily, with a more euphonious name. —  A Little Girl in Old Salem
  • I'll not deny that flowers pop up their heads afield without such call, that the jack-in-the-pulpit speaks its maiden sermon on some other beckoning of nature. —  Journeys to Bagdad
  • It was only to be the edging on a shawl for her, but he spent three days and two nights on it; and then she asked him to make it over with jack-in-the-pulpit inset, because she was sure to grow tired very soon of Sweet William; then she changed her mind about jack-in-the-pulpit and decided on wintergreen berries. —  The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • Gray olive trees were on either side, and on the bordering banks grew lovely wild flowers, starry purple anemones, jack-in-the-pulpit lilies, yellow oxalis, moon-daisies, and the beautiful genista which we treasure as a conservatory plant in England. —  The Jolliest School of All
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