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WAKE-ROBIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
Synonyms:
Arisaema atrorubens; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip; jack-in-the-pulpit; wake-robin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wake-robin" is a kind of...):
aroid; arum (any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe)
Holonyms ("wake-robin" is a member of...):
Arisaema; genus Arisaema (tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
trillium; wake-robin; wood lily
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("wake-robin" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wake-robin"):
prairie trillium; prairie wake-robin; Trillium recurvatum (trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers)
dwarf-white trillium; early wake-robin; snow trillium (a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States)
birthroot; purple trillium; red trillium; Trillium erectum (trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth)
red trillium; sessile trillium; toadshade; Trillium sessile (trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor)
Holonyms ("wake-robin" is a member of...):
genus Trillium (deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae)
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