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

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  1. n. common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
  2. n. common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
  3. n common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries n common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum