trillium

American  

[tril-ee-uhm] / ˈtrɪl i əm /

noun

1. any of several plants belonging to the genus Trillium, of the lily family, having a whorl of three leaves from the center of which rises a solitary, three-petalled flower.

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trillium British  

/ ˈtrɪljəm /

noun

1. any herbaceous plant of the genus Trillium , of Asia and North America, having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single central white, pink, or purple three-petalled flower: family Trilliaceae

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Etymology

Origin of trillium

< New Latin (Linnaeus), apparently alteration of Swedish trilling triplet, alluding to the foliation

Example Sentences

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trillium

Like the three-petaled trillium, the book has three sections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

April to early May is the earliest you might expect to see skunk cabbage, coltsfoot and trillium blooming around Longmire, in the Mount Rainier National Park’s southwest corner.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

At the base of a steep hill directly below the house, Orpello points out freshly cleared areas where long-dormant spring blooms, snowdrops, snowflakes, Virginia bluebells, trillium and hesperis have returned after decades underground.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021

There are also local wildflowers - trillium, dogtooth violets and cornflowers from ditches.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2019

Ella riffled through the cabinet of herbs, eyes scanning over all the little drawers of dried roots and plants, the labels in Latin: trillium grandiflorum, viburnum, eugenia pimenta, and so on.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton