My bookish meme for 2026: the Golden Age of Detection (GAD) Mystery Word of the Day. Whenever I find a word that I'm unfamiliar with--or shall we say not absolutely confident I know the exact meaning of, I'm going to actually take time to look it up and share it with mystery-lovers everywhere. 😊
Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is cuckoo-pint (noun). Arum maculatum, commonly known as cuckoopint, jack-in-the-pulpit and other names, is a woodland flowering plant species in the family Araceae. It is native across most of Europe, as well as Eastern Turkey and the Caucasus.
...he says there's no harm in it [picking wild plants for tea]. I don't feel at all sure myself, for she is hardly responsible for her actions and may easily pick something poisonous, cuckoo-pint, for instance, which I have seen growing in several places. (~Shadows Before by Dorothy Bowers)
Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is cuckoo-pint (noun). Arum maculatum, commonly known as cuckoopint, jack-in-the-pulpit and other names, is a woodland flowering plant species in the family Araceae. It is native across most of Europe, as well as Eastern Turkey and the Caucasus.
...he says there's no harm in it [picking wild plants for tea]. I don't feel at all sure myself, for she is hardly responsible for her actions and may easily pick something poisonous, cuckoo-pint, for instance, which I have seen growing in several places. (~Shadows Before by Dorothy Bowers)
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