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trillium
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun trillium has 1 sense
- trillium(n = noun.plant) wake-robin, wood lily - 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; Array is a kind of liliaceous plant
is a member of genus trillium
has particulars: prairie trillium, prairie wake-robin, trillium recurvatum, dwarf-white trillium, early wake-robin, snow trillium, birthroot, purple trillium, red trillium, trillium erectum, red trillium, sessile trillium, toadshade, trillium sessile
CIDE DICTIONARY
trillium, n. [NL.; cf. L. trilix triple-woven, triple.].
A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; -- so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes. [1913 Webster]
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