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PURPLE TRILLIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does purple trillium mean?
• PURPLE TRILLIUM (noun)
The noun PURPLE TRILLIUM has 1 sense:
1. trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth
Familiarity information: PURPLE TRILLIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
birthroot; purple trillium; red trillium; Trillium erectum
Hypernyms ("purple 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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