cuckoopint

3 definitions found

cuckoopint - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cuckoopint \Cuck"oo*pint`\ (-p?nt`), n. (Bot.)
     A plant of the genus Arum (Arum maculatum); the European
     wake-robin.
     [1913 Webster]

  cuckoopint \cuck"oo*pint`\, cuckoo-pint \cuck"oo-pint`\n.
     a common European arum (Arum maculatum) with lanceolate
     spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring,
     and is the source of a sagolike starch called arum.
  
     Syn: cuckoopint, lords and ladies, lords-and-ladies,
          jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum.
          [WordNet 1.5]

cuckoopint - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cuckoopint
      n 1: common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short
           purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch
           called arum [syn: cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, jack- in-the-pulpit
           , Arum maculatum]