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Meanings of arisaema triphyllum in English

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Common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries.

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Examples for "wake-robin"
Examples for "wake-robin"
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Here he came upon evidences of a meal which the rival had made upon wake-robin roots.
Followers of the Trail
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Fresh green heads of bosky ferns and wake-robin were pushing up through the old mats of last year's foliage.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
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You will know where to find the yellow violet, and the wake-robin, and the pink lady-slipper, and the scarlet sage, and the fringed gentian.
The Blue Flower
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Some brought handfuls of columbine from rocky nooks, and others the purple trillium, that is near of kin to Burroughs's white "wake-robin."
Nature's Serial Story
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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.
Followers of the Trail
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Dieffenbachias are tropical cousins of the jack-in-the-pulpit.
The new yorker
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But he couldn't see Uncle Wiggily because he was safely hidden in the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
Uncle Wiggily's Travels
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The juice was expressed from a considerable quantity of the mashed Indian turnip.
The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915
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The same operations were repeated upon the Indian turnip with exactly similar results.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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But the fish and Indian turnip being none of the best, we made but a sorry meal.
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
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Vegetation is very scanty; the Indian turnip, however, is common, as is also a species of cactus.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
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In early summer the best forage is on the warm hill-sides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow.
The Biography of a Grizzly