wake-robin

Questions about wake-robin

What does wake-robin mean?

wake-robin 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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wake-robin?

wake-robin has 4 syllables: wa-ke--ro-bin. The stress falls on "ke-".

What is another word for wake-robin?

Close synonyms include trillium, wood lily, jack-in-the-pulpit, Indian turnip, Arisaema triphyllum. 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 wake-robin a common word?

wake-robin 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.