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wake-robin
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wake-robin has 2 senses
- wake-robin(n = noun.plant) trillium, 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
- wake-robin(n = noun.plant) arisaema atrorubens, arisaema triphyllum, indian turnip, jack-in-the-pulpit - common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries; Array is a kind of aroid, arum
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
is a member of arisaema, genus arisaema
CIDE DICTIONARY
wake-robin, n.
Any plant of the genus Arum , especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum ). [1913 Webster]
" In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit."
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