wakerobin

See also: wake-robin and wake robin

English

Jeweled wakerobin (Trillium)

Lords and Ladies (Arum maculatum) - also known as cuckoopint or wakerobin

Alternative forms

• wake-robin, wake robin

Etymology

From wake +‎ robin.

Noun

wakerobin (plural wakerobins)

1. Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals.
2. Any plant of the genus Arum, especially the cuckoopint.

Derived terms

• nodding wakerobin

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wakerobin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)