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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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