TRILLIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trillium mean? 

• TRILLIUM (noun)
  The noun TRILLIUM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TRILLIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRILLIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

trillium; wake-robin; wood lily

Hypernyms ("trillium" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trillium"):

prairie trillium; prairie wake-robin; Trillium recurvatum (trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers)

dwarf-white trillium; early wake-robin; snow trillium (a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States)

birthroot; purple trillium; red trillium; Trillium erectum (trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth)

red trillium; sessile trillium; toadshade; Trillium sessile (trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor)

Holonyms ("trillium" is a member of...):

genus Trillium (deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae)