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Significados de birthroot em inglês

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Trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth.

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        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.
        Wicked plants
        2
        Wide swaths of yellow lady slippers, wintergreen, and foul-smelling purple trillium covered the ground like a colorful rag quilt.
        The Bone Doll's Twin
        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."
        Nature's Serial Story
        1
        "There aren't any red ones excepting the red trillium, and that's so dark it isn't really red."
        Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3)