GREEN DRAGON

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

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Meaning:

Early spring-flowering plant of eastern North America resembling the related jack-in-the-pulpit but having digitate leaves, slender greenish yellow spathe and elongated spadix

Synonyms:

Arisaema dracontium; green dragon

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("green dragon" is a kind of...):

aroid; arum (any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe)

Holonyms ("green dragon" is a member of...):

Arisaema; genus Arisaema (tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials)

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