green dragon

/grin ˌdrægən/
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Other forms: green dragons

Definitions of green dragon
  1. noun
    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
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    type of:
    aroid, arum
    any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe
  2. noun
    European arum resembling the cuckoopint
    synonyms: Dracunculus vulgaris, dragon arum
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    type of:
    aroid, arum
    any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe
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