wake-robin (redirected from Wake-robins)

wake-rob·in (wkrbn)

n.

1. See trillium.

2. Any of various North American aroid plants that bloom early in the spring.

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wake-robin

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various North American herbaceous plants of the genus Trillium, such as T. grandiflorum, having a whorl of three leaves and three-petalled solitary flowers: family Trilliaceae

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) US any of various aroid plants, esp the cuckoopint

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wake-robin - 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 liliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber genus Trillium - deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae prairie trillium, prairie wake-robin, Trillium recurvatum - trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers dwarf-white trillium, early wake-robin, snow trillium - a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States birthroot, purple trillium, Trillium erectum, red trillium - trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth red trillium, sessile trillium, toadshade, Trillium sessile - trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor
	2.	wake-robin - 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, Arisaema triphyllum, Indian turnip, jack-in-the-pulpit aroid, arum - any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe Arisaema, genus Arisaema - tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials