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==Common names== ''A. maculatum'' is known by an abundance of common names including '''Adam and Eve''',<ref name=ncsu>{{Cite web |title=Arum maculatum (Adam and Eve, Arum, Bobbins, Cuckoo-Pint, Cuckoo Plant, Lords-and-Ladies, Starch Root, Wake Robin) |author= |website=North Carolina State University Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox |date= |access-date=19 May 2021 |url= https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/arum-maculatum/}}</ref> '''adder's meat''',<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Gordon|first=W. J.|title=Our Country's Flowers and how to know them|publisher=Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co|year=1891|location=London|pages=1}}</ref> '''adder's root''',<ref name=pmid29963416/> '''arum''',<ref name=ncsu/> '''wild arum''',<ref name=pmid29963416/> '''arum lily''',<ref name=pmid29963416/> '''bobbins''',<ref name=ncsu/> '''cows and bulls''',<ref name=pmid29963416/> '''cuckoo pint''' ,<ref name=britannica>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=cuckoopint |author= |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date= |access-date=19 May 2021 |url= https://www.britannica.com/plant/cuckoopint}}</ref> '''cuckoo-plant''',<ref name=ncsu/> '''devils and angels''',<ref name=pmid29963416/> '''friar's cowl''',<ref name=pmid29963416/> '''jack in the pulpit''',<ref name=pmid29963416/> '''lamb-in-a-pulpit''',<ref name=":0"/> '''lords-and-ladies''',<ref name=britannica/> '''naked boys''',<ref name=pmid29963416/> '''snakeshead''',<ref name=pmid29963416>{{cite journal| author1=Prakash Raju KNJ|author2=Goel K|author3=Anandhi D|author4=Pandit VR|author5=Surendar R|author6= Sasikumar M| title=Wild tuber poisoning: Arum maculatum - A rare case report. | journal=Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci | year= 2018 | volume= 8 | issue= 2 | pages= 111β114 | pmid=29963416 | doi=10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_9_18 | pmc=6018264 |doi-access=free }}</ref> '''starch-root''',<ref name=ncsu/> and '''wake-robin'''.<ref name=britannica/> Many names refer to the plant's appearance; "lords-and-ladies" and many other names may liken the plant to male and female genitalia symbolising copulation.<ref>[http://www.brickfieldspark.org/data/lordsansladiesarum.htm Brickfields Country Park - ''Arum Maculatum'']. Accessed 22 October 2013.</ref> Starch-root is a simple description β the plant's root was used to make [[laundry starch]] and the 'lords and ladies' name may alternatively have referred to its use for starching the ruffs worn around the necks of the gentry during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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