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ˈwake-ˌrobin
[App. f. wake v. + robin.]
1. The plant Arum maculatum, also commonly called cuckoo-pint, lords-and-ladies, etc.
1530Palsgr. 286/1 Wakerobyn an herbe. 1538Elyot Dict., Addit., Aros, an herbe callyd wake Robyn. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccxc. 684 There be diuers sorts of wake Robin or Cockow pint. 1601Lyly Love's Metam. i. ii, They haue eaten so much wake-Robin, that they cannot sleepe for loue. 1725Bradley's Family Dict., Wake-robin or Calvesfoot, in Latin Arum... The Root of this plant is purgative and penetrating; they prepare a powder of it that is used in Astma's, Dropsy, and Hypocondriac Melancholy. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 255 The root of the arum maculatum, or wake-robin.
b. dial. The purple orchis, Orchis maculata.
c. The red campion, Lychnis diurna.
1905Eng. Dial. Dict.
2. In U.S. applied (a) to certain araceous plants, esp. Peltandra undulata (or virginica, formerly called Arum virginicum), arrow-arum, tuckahoe; (b) to liliaceous plants of the genus Trillium (esp. the white-flowered species).
c1711Petiver Gazophyl. i. i, In South Carolina..it Flowers in June and July, and is called by them Wake-Robin. Ibid. vi. lx, A whitish flowred Arum or Wake Robin, with cordated narrow pointed Leaves. 1770J. R. Forster tr. Kalm's Trav. N. Amer. I. 125 The Virginian Wake robin, or Arum Virginicum, grows in wet places. 1871Burroughs Wake-Robin Pref. (1884) p. vi, Wake-Robin—the common name of the white Trillium. 1884W. Miller Plant-n. 143 Wake-Robin, American, Arum dracontium, Trillium grandiflorum, and T. cernuum. 1915G. S. Porter M. O'Halloran ii. 32 So long as I could find a scrap of arbutus, a violet or a wake-robin from the woods.
3. In the West Indies and tropical America, applied to certain araceous plants of either of the genera Anthurium (tail-flower) and Philodendron.
1864Grisebach Flora W. Ind. Isl. 788 Wake-robin, Anthurium and Philodendron. |