Jack-in-the-pulpit
/ˈdʒækɪnðəˈpʊlpɪt/noun
1- either of two small plants of the arum family天南星属植物:
1.1
- another term for CUCKOO PINT.
1.2
- a North American arum with a green or purple-brown spathe (Arisaema triphyllum, family Araceae)天南星(拉丁名 Arisaema triphyllum, 天南星科)。
词源
mid 19th cent.: so named because the erect spadix overarched by the spathe resembles a person in a pulpit.