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 "
1 Here he came upon evidences of a meal which the rival had made upon wake-robin roots.
2 Fresh green heads of bosky ferns and wake-robin were pushing up through the old mats of last year's foliage.
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.
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 . "
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.
1 Dieffenbachias are tropical cousins of the jack - in - the - pulpit .
2 But he couldn't see Uncle Wiggily because he was safely hidden in the Jack-in-the-pulpit .
1 The juice was expressed from a considerable quantity of the mashed Indian turnip .
2 The same operations were repeated upon the Indian turnip with exactly similar results.
3 But the fish and Indian turnip being none of the best, we made but a sorry meal.
4 Vegetation is very scanty; the Indian turnip , however, is common, as is also a species of cactus.
5 In early summer the best forage is on the warm hill-sides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow.
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