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PRAIRIE TRILLIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prairie trillium mean? 

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

1. trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PRAIRIE TRILLIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

prairie trillium; prairie wake-robin; Trillium recurvatum

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

trillium; wake-robin; wood lily (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)


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