wake-rob|in

wake-rob|in
wake-rob|in «WAYK ROB uhn», noun.
1. U.S. any one of a group of plants with purple, pink, yellow, or white flowers and a disagreeable odor; trillium.
2. British. a) the cuckoopint. b) any one of several other arums, or plants closely related to the arums, such as the jack-in-the-pulpit. c) Dialect. a purple European orchid.

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