wake-robin

wake-rob·in

or wake·rob·in (wāk′rŏb′ĭn)n.1. See trillium.2. Any of various aroid plants that bloom early in the spring, such as the jack-in-the-pulpit.

wake-robin

n 1. (Plants) any of various North American herbaceous plants of the genus Trillium, such as T. grandiflorum, having a whorl of three leaves and three-petalled solitary flowers: family Trilliaceae 2. (Plants) US any of various aroid plants, esp the cuckoopint

wake′-rob`in

n. 1. cuckoopint. 2. any of various trilliums of E North American woods. [1520–30]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wake-robin - any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flowertrillium, wood lilyliliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tubergenus Trillium - deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceaeprairie trillium, prairie wake-robin, Trillium recurvatum - trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowersdwarf-white trillium, early wake-robin, snow trillium - a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United Statesbirthroot, purple trillium, Trillium erectum, red trillium - trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirthred trillium, sessile trillium, toadshade, Trillium sessile - trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor
	2.	wake-robin - common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berriesArisaema atrorubens, Arisaema triphyllum, Indian turnip, jack-in-the-pulpitaroid, arum - any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spatheArisaema, genus Arisaema - tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials