wake-robin
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, Arisaema atrorubens
• Hypernyms:
arum, aroid
• Member Holonyms:
Arisaema, genus Arisaema
2. 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
• Hypernyms:
liliaceous plant
• Hyponyms:
prairie wake-robin, prairie trillium, Trillium recurvatum, dwarf-white trillium, snow trillium,
early wake-robin, purple trillium, red trillium, birthroot, Trillium erectum, toadshade,
sessile trillium, Trillium sessile
• Member Holonyms:
genus Trillium
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