turnip jack
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turnip flea — noun or turnip flea beetle or turnip jack : striped flea beetle * * * turnip flea noun A leaping beetle that eats young turnip and cabbage plants • • • Main Entry: ↑turnip … Useful english dictionary
jack-in-the-pulpit — trilapis žingis statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Aroninių šeimos vaistinis nuodingas augalas (Arisaema triphyllum), paplitęs Šiaurės Amerikoje. atitikmenys: lot. Arisaema triphyllum angl. Indian turnip; jack in the pulpit pranc. petit… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
jack-in-the-pulpit — n. 1. A common American spring flowering woodland herb ({Aris[ae]ma triphyllum}) having sheathing leaves and an upright club shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries; also called {Indian turnip}. Syn:… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Jack Minnis — ( d. 2005) was an American activist, and the founder and director of opposition research for the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee in the Civil Rights era. Minnis researched federal expenditures and state and local subversion of racial… … Wikipedia
jack-o'-lantern — ► NOUN 1) a lantern made from a hollowed out pumpkin or turnip in which holes are cut to represent facial features. 2) archaic a will o the wisp … English terms dictionary
jack-in-the-pul|pit — «JAK ihn thuh PUL piht», noun. a plant with a greenish, petallike sheath arched over the upright flower stalk; Indian turnip; wake robin. It is a perennial herb of North America that belongs to the arum family. ╂[American English < jack1] … Useful english dictionary
Jack-o'-lantern — A jack o lantern (sometimes also spelled Jack O Lantern)is typically a carved pumpkin. It is associated chiefly with the holiday Halloween, and was named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called ignis fatuus or jack … Wikipedia
Turnip — taxobox name = Turnip image caption = Small turnip root regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Eudicots unranked ordo = Rosids ordo = Brassicales familia = Brassicaceae genus = Brassica species = B. rapa subspecies = B … Wikipedia
jack-in-the-pulpit — /jak in dheuh pool pit, pul /, n., pl. jack in the pulpits. A North American plant, Arisaema triphyllum, of the arum family, having an upright spadix arched over by a green or striped purplish brown spathe. [1840 50, Amer.] * * * North American… … Universalium
turnip ghost — noun Britain : a jack o lantern made from a turnip rind; broadly : bugaboo … Useful english dictionary
