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GREEN DRAGON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
European arum resembling the cuckoopint
Synonyms:
Dracunculus vulgaris; dragon arum; green dragon
Classified under:
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...):
Dracunculus; genus Dracunculus (tuberous herbaceous perennials: dragon arum)
