arum
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
arum /ˈɛːrəm/
▶noun a plant of a large family with typically arrow-shaped leaves and a broad leafy spathe enclosing a club-shaped spadix. [Arum maculatum (wild arum, cuckoo pint) and other species, family Araceae .]
– origin ME: from L., from Gk aron.
'arum' also found in these Oxford entries:
aroid
- arum lily
- bog arum
- calla
- cuckoo pint
- cunjevoi
- Jack-in-the-pulpit
- lily
- skunk cabbage
- sweet flag
- tannia
- water calla
- wild arum

