wake-robin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wake-robin	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wake-robin 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 Synonym(s): trillium, wood lily, 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 berries Synonym(s): jack-in-the-pulpit, Indian turnip, wake-robin, Arisaema triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wake-robin \Wake"-rob`in\, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Arum}, especially, in England, the cuckoopint ({Arum maculatum}). Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.