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Trillium

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. Synonyms: wake-robin, wood lily.

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"Trillium" Quotes from Famous Books

... plants which have now almost disappeared from Eastern Massachusetts are still found near Worcester in the greatest abundance,—as the larger Yellow Violet, the Red Trillium, the Dwarf Ginseng, the Clintonia or Wild Lily-of-the-Valley, and the pretty fringed Polygala, which Miss Cooper christened "Gay-Wings." Others again are now rare in this vicinity, and growing rarer, though still abundant ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various

Words linked to "Trillium" : early wake-robin, toadshade, prairie wake-robin, liliaceous plant, birthroot