purple trillium

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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

   Synonymsred trilliumbirthrootTrillium erectum

   Broadertrillium

Questions about purple trillium

What does purple trillium mean?

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

What is another word for purple trillium?

Close synonyms include red trillium, birthroot, Trillium erectum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purple trillium a common word?

purple trillium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.