painted trillium

American  

noun

1. a North American trillium, Trillium undulatum, having white flowers streaked with pink or purple.

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Etymology

Origin of painted trillium

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

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painted trillium

The pretty painted trillium was in blossom, as was also the dark purple species, and the hobble-bush showed its broad white cymes in all directions.

From Birds in the Bush by Torrey, Bradford

In the damp Spring woods The painted trillium smiles, while crisp pine cones Autumn alone can ripen.

From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Lowell, Amy

Amid the trunks of the trees grew elder shrubs, and snake-berries, and the elvish trifoliate plants of the purple and the painted trillium.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

The spring-beauty, the painted trillium, the fringed polygala, the showy lady's-slipper, are all more striking to look upon, but they do not quite touch the heart; they lack the soul that perfume suggests.

From The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers by Burroughs, John

See how the banks are all enamelled with the pale hepatica, the painted trillium, and the delicate pink-veined spring beauty.

From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Van Dyke, Henry