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Definition of Purple trillium
1. Noun. Trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth.
Generic synonyms: Trillium, Wake-robin, Wood Lily
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple Trillium
Literary usage of Purple trillium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1906)
"Gray and other botanical writers call this striking flower " purple trillium ";
it should rather be called red, its hue being decidedly more red than purple ..."
2. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Like the purple trillium (p. 7), it has deliberately adapted itself to please
its benefactors, ... But the purple trillium has an additional advantage in ..."
3. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"The purple trillium (T. erectum) shown in fig. 324 is very different from it.
So are a number of others. But the purple trillium is a species. ..."
4. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"Like the purple trillium (p. 7), it has deliberately adapted itself to please
its benefactors, ... But the purple trillium has an additional advantage in ..."
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