2 definitions
for Wake-robin
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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 :
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]