Definition of "wake-robin" [wake•-rob•in]

• See trillium. (noun)
• Any of various North American aroid plants that bloom early in the spring. (noun)

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• "In quaint sage-green draperies, she seemed a flower, with her small vivid face irresistibly reminding Saxon of a springtime wake-robin."
• "A meal of grubs and peppery wake-robin roots left him happy, but still he rambled on, following his nose and alert for any new adventure."
• "Here he came upon evidences of a meal which the rival had made upon wake-robin roots."