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Meanings of birthroot in English
Trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth.
Synonyms
Examples for "purple trillium"
Examples for "purple trillium"
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A lovely red or purple trillium that thrives in moist woodland conditions in eastern North America.
2
Wide swaths of yellow lady slippers, wintergreen, and foul-smelling purple trillium covered the ground like a colorful rag quilt.
3
Some brought handfuls of columbine from rocky nooks, and others the purple trillium, that is near of kin to Burroughs's white "wake-robin."
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"There aren't any red ones excepting the red trillium, and that's so dark it isn't really red."