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Wake-robin

Wake-robin Meaning & Definition
Wake-robin Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Wake-robin?

[n] common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
[n] 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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Wake-robin: Arisaema atrorubens | Arisaema triphyllum | Indian turnip | jack-in-the-pulpit | trillium | wood lily

Related Terms | Find terms related to Wake-robin:

See Also | Arisaema | aroid | arum | birthroot | dwarf-white trillium | early wake-robin | genus Arisaema | genus Trillium | liliaceous plant | prairie trillium | prairie wake-robin | purple trillium | red trillium | sessile trillium | snow trillium | toadshade | Trillium erectum | Trillium recurvatum | Trillium sessile

Wake-robin In Webster's Dictionary

\Wake"-rob`in\, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Arum}, especially, in England, the cuckoopint ({Arum maculatum}). Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.

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