purple trillium

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purple trillium - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  purple trillium
      n 1: trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to
           purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine
           especially to ease childbirth [syn: purple trillium, red trillium
           , birthroot, Trillium erectum]