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Webster 1913 Edition


Trillium


Tril′li-um

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Noun.
[NL.; cf. L.
trilix
triple-woven, triple.]
(Bot.)
A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; – so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.

Definition 2024


Trillium

Trillium

See also: trillium

Translingual

Trillium cernuum

Proper noun

Trillium n

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Melanthiaceae.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

trillium

trillium

See also: Trillium

English

sweet trillium (Trillium albidum)

Noun

trillium (plural trilliums)

  1. Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtril.li.um/, [ˈtrɪl.li.ũ]

Noun

trillium n (genitive trilliī); second declension

  1. trillium

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative trillium trillia
genitive trilliī trilliōrum
dative trilliō trilliīs
accusative trillium trillia
ablative trilliō trilliīs
vocative trillium trillia