wake-robin Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
    trillium; wood lily.
  2. 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
    Arisaema atrorubens; jack-in-the-pulpit; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip.

WordNet


Wake"-rob`in noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). ✍ In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.

Webster 1913