indian turnip

What does indian turnip mean?

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

What is another word for indian turnip?

Close synonyms include jack-in-the-pulpit, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens. 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 indian turnip a common word?

indian turnip 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for indian turnip come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.