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Meanings of wake-robin in inglês

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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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        espanhol
        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
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              Examples for "trillium"
              1
              This plant grows to about the same height as the trillium.
              The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
              2
              So a double-flowered trillium is native but exotic, old-fashioned but new.
              The new yorker
              3
              The trillium is a modestly elegant white-flowered perennial that is indigenous to Eastern American woodlands.
              The new yorker
              4
              A lovely red or purple trillium that thrives in moist woodland conditions in eastern North America.
              Wicked plants
              5
              Through these the timid Awakening spirit lifts its head like the first trillium of the year.
              Contemporary American Composers / Being a Study of the Music of ...
              1
              The glints wavered over Rachel's face, as white as a wood lily, with only a faint dream of rose in the cheeks.
              Further Chronicles of Avonlea
              Usage of wake-robin in inglês
              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
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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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              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
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              '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
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              Translations for wake-robin
              espanhol
              trillium
              Wake-robin through the time