noun
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
• Member Holonyms: ↑Arisaema, ↑genus Arisaema
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
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Arum
• Part Meronyms: ↑arum
Useful english dictionary. 2012.