jack-in-the-pulpit

noun, plural jack-in-the-pul·pits.

1. A North American plant, Arisaema triphyllum, of the arum family, having an upright spadix arched over by a green or striped purplish-brown spathe.

noun

1. an E North American aroid plant, Arisaema triphyllum, having a leaflike spathe partly arched over a clublike spadix
2. British another name for cuckoopint