purple trillium

American  

noun

1. birthroot.

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Etymology

Origin of purple trillium

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

It is first cousin to the trilliums, among the prettiest of our native wild flowers, and the same bad blood crops out in the purple trillium or birthroot.

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Who will find the first of the purple trilliums that open their dark flowers in the shady groves, or the golden poppies on the warm hillsides of the West?

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There should be a few purple trilliums among the white, and some of the plants should have the underground parts intact.

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The purple trilliums, like the Dutchman’s breeches, felt the effects of the many April and early May frosts but now they are coming into their beauty.

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After the purple trillium has done flowering, we have the painted trillium of the woods; the trillium grandiflorum is abundant at Grosse Isle.

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