'Wake-robin' definitions:

Definition of 'wake-robin'

(from WordNet)
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 [syn: trillium, wood lily, wake-robin]
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 [syn: jack-in-the-pulpit, Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens]

Definition of 'Wake-robin'

From: GCIDE
  • Wake-robin \Wake"-rob`in\, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit. [1913 Webster]

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