Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jack-in-the-pulpit

2 senses of jack-in-the-pulpit

Sense 1
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)
       => arum, aroid -- (any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe)

Sense 2
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)
       => arum, aroid -- (any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe)