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Common wildflower
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trillium
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Word definitions for trillium in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Trillium ( trillium , wakerobin , tri flower , birthroot , birthwort ) is a genus of perennial flowering plants native to temperate regions of North America and Asia . It was formerly treated in the family Trilliaceae or trillium family, a part of the Liliales ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1768, from Modern Latin trillium (Linnaeus, 1753), from Latin tri- "three" (see three ). So called for its leaves and flower segments.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus ''Trillium'', having flowers with three petals
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trillium \Tril"li*um\, n. [NL.; cf. L. trilix triple-woven, triple.] (Bot.) A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; -- so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.
Usage examples of trillium.
The door was plastered with biohazard symbol and warning: CAUTION BIOHAZARD DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT WEARING VENTILATED SUIT The international symbol for biohazard, which is pasted on doors at USAMRIID whenever they open through a major transition of zones, is a red trefoil that reminds me of a red trillium, or toadshade.
He flew right out at me, landed on my shoulder, gave me a lecture that I shall never forget, and vanished under the scant cover of trillium and bloodroot leaves.
The azaleas succeeded to the anemones, the orchis and trillium followed, then the yellow gerardias and the feathery purple pogonias, and finally the growing gleam of the golden-rods along the wood-side and the red umbels of the tall eupatoriums in the meadow announced the close of summer.
Another thing, Trillium Covert and Madrono Ranch were happily situated in a narrow thermal belt, so that in the frosty mornings of winter the temperature was always several degrees higher than in the rest of the valley.
The magical trillium amulets were hung on fine golden chains, and the Princesses wore them waking or sleeping.
The three Princesses are said to wear amulets containing buds of the Black Trillium.
Wild flowers were scattered through the woods, white trilliums, yellow violets, rose pink hawthorn, while yellow jonquils and blue and yellow gentians dominated some of the higher meadows.
You now pursue the Three Petals of the Living Trillium, the Princesses of Ruwenda, and would put them also to death.
It was a trillium nearly as tall as Haramis herself, bare-rooted, with spreading glossy leaves, and seedpods, and a myriad of night-black blossoms each as large as an outstretched hand.
Thousands more of the trilliums remained, spreading their petals beneath the light of the Triple Moons.
I have had," she continued dispassionately, "at least two major brainstorms in the last five years, and the Flower only knows"-her fingers went to the bit of Trillium embedded in amber in the Talisman about her neck—"how many minor ones.
Her eyes lit on a trillium, a three-leaved dark red flower that grew amid a patch of velvet ferns.
Yet we won out—and Black Trilliums bloomed in Ruwenda for the first time unce the withdrawing of the Conquering Ice.
But now you must flee, Petal of the Living Trillium, and gain the land before the sorcerer realizes what has happened and wreaks his vengeance upon you.