trillium

Other forms of trillium

plural

trilliums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trillium

What does trillium mean?

trillium means "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".

How many syllables are in trillium?

trillium has 3 syllables and divides as tril-li-um under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for trillium?

Close synonyms include wood lily, wake-robin. 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 trillium a common word?

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.