wake-robin Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
trillium; wood lily.
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noun common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
Arisaema atrorubens; jack-in-the-pulpit; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip.
WordNet
Wake"-rob`in noun
Definitions
(Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arum , especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum ).✍ In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.