NOUN
- common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
How To Use Arum maculatum In A Sentence
- The Arum family, Aroidae, which numbers nearly 1,000 members, mostly tropical, and many of them marsh or water plants, is represented in this country by a sole species, Arum maculatum, familiarly known as Lords and Ladies, or Cuckoo-pint.
- Arum italicum ‘Pictum’, a relative of the wild Arum maculatum, is probably more recognisable from its common names of lords and ladies or cuckoopint.
