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• wake-robin — noun 1. 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, ↑Arisaema triphyllum,… …   Useful english dictionary

• prairie wake-robin — noun trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers • Syn: ↑prairie trillium, ↑Trillium recurvatum • Hypernyms: ↑trillium, ↑wood lily, ↑wake robin * * * noun : a perennial trillium ( …   Useful english dictionary

• wake-robin — /wayk rob in/, n. 1. the cuckoopint. 2. any of various plants belonging to the genus Trillium, native to eastern North America, of the lily family, as T. erectum, having rank smelling purple, yellow, or white flowers. [1520 30] * * * …   Universalium

• wake-robin — /ˈweɪk rɒbən/ (say wayk robuhn) noun 1. → cuckoopint. 2. any of various other arums or other genera of the family Araceae. 3. any of various plants of North America of the genus Trillium, as T. erectum, a species with ill scented purple, pink, or …  

• prairie wake-robin — a woodland trillium, Trillium recurvatum, of the central U.S., having purple mottled leaves and brown purple flowers. * * * …   Universalium

• purple trillium — noun trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth • Syn: ↑red trillium, ↑birthroot, ↑Trillium erectum • Hypernyms: ↑trillium, ↑wood lily,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Wake, Rattle, and Roll — Title Card for Wake, Rattle, and Roll. Genre Comedy Format Live action …   Wikipedia

• Indian purple — Indian In di*an (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus, the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. ?, OPers. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus. Cf. {Hindu}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to India… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• red trillium — noun 1. trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor • Syn: ↑toadshade, ↑sessile trillium, ↑Trillium sessile • Hypernyms: ↑trillium, ↑wood lily, ↑wake robin 2 …   Useful english dictionary

• wood lily — noun 1. lily of eastern North America having orange to orange red purple spotted flowers • Syn: ↑Lilium philadelphicum • Hypernyms: ↑lily 2. any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a… …   Useful english dictionary

• trillium — 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: ↑wood lily, ↑wake robin • Hypernyms: ↑liliaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑prairie wake robin, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary