Arum maculatum
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Arum maculatum![]() ![]() Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Sago \Sa"go\ (s[=a]"g[-o]), n. [Malay. s[=a]gu.] A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants (Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.). [1913 Webster] Portland sago, a kind of sago prepared from the corms of the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). Sago palm. (Bot.) (a) A palm tree which yields sago. (b) A species of Cycas (Cycas revoluta). Sago spleen (Med.), a morbid condition of the spleen, produced by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a cross section shows scattered gray translucent bodies looking like grains of sago. [1913 Webster] Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jack-in-the-pulpit \jack-in-the-pulpit\ n.
1. A common American spring-flowering woodland herb
(Aris[ae]ma triphyllum) having sheathing leaves and an
upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and
purple spathe producing scarlet berries; also called
Indian turnip.
Syn: Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum,
Arisaema atrorubens.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. A common European arum (Arum maculatum) with lanceolate
spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring
and is a source of a sagolike starch called arum.
Syn: cuckoo-pint, cuckoopint, lords and ladies,
lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum.
[WordNet 1.5]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Lords and Ladies \Lords" and La"dies\n. (Bot.) The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies. --Dr. Prior. [1913 Webster] Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Wake-robin \Wake"-rob`in\, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). [1913 Webster] Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit. [1913 Webster] Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Cuckoopint \Cuck"oo*pint`\ (-p?nt`), n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Arum (Arum maculatum); the European wake-robin. [1913 Webster] Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 cuckoopint \cuck"oo*pint`\, cuckoo-pint \cuck"oo-pint`\n. a common European arum (Arum maculatum) with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring, and is the source of a sagolike starch called arum. Syn: cuckoopint, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum. [WordNet 1.5] Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Arum maculatum
n 1: 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, jack-
in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum]
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