Term Gallery logo

Meanings of wake-robin in inglés

Wikidata

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

See more
        español
        trillium

        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.

              trillium
              Sinónimos
              Examples for "jack-in-the-pulpit"
              Examples for "jack-in-the-pulpit"
              1
              Dieffenbachias are tropical cousins of the jack-in-the-pulpit.
              The new yorker
              2
              But he couldn't see Uncle Wiggily because he was safely hidden in the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
              Uncle Wiggily's Travels
              1
              The juice was expressed from a considerable quantity of the mashed Indian turnip.
              The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915
              2
              The same operations were repeated upon the Indian turnip with exactly similar results.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
              3
              But the fish and Indian turnip being none of the best, we made but a sorry meal.
              Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
              4
              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...
              5
              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
              Usage of wake-robin in inglés
              1
              Here he came upon evidences of a meal which the rival had made upon wake-robin roots.
              Followers of the Trail
              2
              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
              3
              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
              4
              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
              5
              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
              6
              In this way he wrote Wake-Robin and a part of Winter Sunshine.
              Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
              7
              By the time she returned to "Wake-Robin" all doubts had been cleared from her mind.
              Madcap
              8
              "Wake-Robin," "Winter Sunshine," "Locusts and Wild Honey," "Leaf and Tendril,"-howmuch they connote!
              Our Friend John Burroughs
              9
              "In that case I intend flying back to 'Wake-Robin'."
              Madcap
              10
              He mentions, however, as did my friend, the Indian girl, that those splendid flowers, the Wickapee and the root of the Wake-Robin, afford valuable medicines.
              Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
              11
              'Wake-robin' he called it.
              Ethel Morton's Enterprise
              12
              "Shall we take up this wake-robin?"
              Ethel Morton's Enterprise
              13
              "You had better come to 'Wake-Robin'."
              Madcap
              14
              It was in 1864, while in the Currency Bureau in Washington, that he wrote the essays which make up his first nature book, "Wake-Robin."
              Our Friend John Burroughs
              Frequent collocations
              Translations for wake-robin
              español
              trillium
              Wake-robin through the time