Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various aroid plants that bloom early in the spring, such as the jack-in-the-pulpit.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Great Britain, the cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatum. The name is extended also to the whole genus.
  • noun In the United States, a plant of the genus Trillium; birth-root, or three-leaved nightshade.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
  • noun 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

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Examples

  • In quaint sage-green draperies, she seemed a flower, with her small vivid face irresistibly reminding Saxon of a springtime wake-robin.

    CHAPTER XVII 2010

  • A meal of grubs and peppery wake-robin roots left him happy, but still he rambled on, following his nose and alert for any new adventure.

    Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer

  • Here he came upon evidences of a meal which the rival had made upon wake-robin roots.

    Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer

  • In quaint sage-green draperies, she seemed a flower, with her small vivid face irresistibly reminding Saxon of a springtime wake-robin.

    Chapter 17 1913

  • Finally we come to where there is less grass but more dead leaves and leaf mould, and here is the first real herbaceous flower of this spring, the dwarf white trillium, or wake-robin.

    Some Spring Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

  • At the same time, perhaps a day or two earlier, the white oblong petals of the dwarf trillium, or wake-robin, will gleam in the rich woods.

    Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

  • "Shall we take up this wake-robin?" asked Ethel Blue.

    Ethel Morton's Enterprise 1903

  • You will know where to find the yellow violet, and the wake-robin, and the pink lady-slipper, and the scarlet sage, and the fringed gentian.

    The Blue Flower 1902

  • You will know where to find the yellow violet, and the wake-robin, and the pink lady-slipper, and the scarlet sage, and the fringed gentian.

    The Blue Flower Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • On the three-leaved table which once carried the gay flower of the wake-robin, there was a scarlet lump like

    Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892

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