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INDIAN TURNIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian turnip mean? 

INDIAN TURNIP (noun)
  The noun INDIAN TURNIP has 1 sense:

1. common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berriesplay

  Familiarity information: INDIAN TURNIP used as a noun is very rare.


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INDIAN TURNIP (noun)


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Meaning:

Common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arisaema atrorubens; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip; jack-in-the-pulpit; wake-robin

Hypernyms ("Indian turnip" is a kind of...):

aroid; arum (any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe)

Holonyms ("Indian turnip" is a member of...):

Arisaema; genus Arisaema (tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials)


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