arum maculatum

Questions about arum maculatum

What does arum maculatum mean?

arum maculatum means "common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum".

What is another word for arum maculatum?

Close synonyms include cuckoopint, lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arum maculatum a common word?

arum maculatum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.