Wake-robin

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

wake-robin
    n 1: any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl
         of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-
         petaled flower [syn: {trillium}, {wood lily}, {wake-robin}]
    2: common American spring-flowering woodland herb having
       sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with
       overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
       [syn: {jack-in-the-pulpit}, {Indian turnip}, {wake-robin},
       {Arisaema triphyllum}, {Arisaema atrorubens}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Wake-robin \Wake"-rob`in\, n. (Bot.)
   Any plant of the genus {Arum}, especially, in England, the
   cuckoopint ({Arum maculatum}).
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: In America the name is given to several species of
         Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
         [1913 Webster]