Wake-robin

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wake-robin \Wake"-rob`in\, n. (Bot.)
     Any plant of the genus {Arum}, especially, in England, the
     cuckoopint ({Arum maculatum}).
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: In America the name is given to several species of


           Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wake-robin
       n 1: 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 [syn: {trillium}, {wood lily}]
       2: common American spring-flowering woodland herb having
          sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with
          overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet
          berries [syn: {jack-in-the-pulpit}, {Indian turnip}, {Arisaema
          triphyllum}, {Arisaema atrorubens}]