Wake-robin | n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus ☞ In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit. [ 1913 Webster ] |
prairie wake-robin | (n) trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers, Syn. prairie trillium, Trillium recurvatum |
dwarf-white trillium | (n) a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States, Syn. early wake-robin, snow trillium |
jack-in-the-pulpit | (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, Syn. wake-robin, Indian turnip, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens |
trillium | (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, Syn. wood lily, wake-robin |
Wake-robin | n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus ☞ In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit. [ 1913 Webster ] |