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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 berries
Familiarity information: INDIAN TURNIP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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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