noun
- Common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries.
- synonyms: Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens
- Common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum.
- synonyms: cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, Arum maculatum
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