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[syn: cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum]
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.
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]