red trillium

1. 1.

   trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor

   Synonymstoadshadesessile trilliumTrillium sessile

   Broadertrillium
2. 2.

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

   Synonymspurple trilliumbirthrootTrillium erectum

   Broadertrillium

Questions about red trillium

What does red trillium mean?

red trillium means "trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red trillium?

Close synonyms include toadshade, sessile trillium, Trillium sessile, purple trillium, birthroot. 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 red trillium a common word?

red trillium is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.