Definitions for Trillium

Trillium tril·li·um

Spelling: [tril-ee-uh m]
IPA: /ˈtrɪl i əm/

Trillium is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in Trillium (iillmrtu).

Definitions for Trillium

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.

Origin of Trillium

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

Examples for Trillium

Every variety of bloom seemed of exaggerated growth, but the trillium exceeded all.

Hepaticas nearly always grow on the same slope, but they come into blossom about two days later than the trillium.

"All of the same everlasting old pattern," grumbled a trillium.

Mr. John Burroughs says his sign is the wake-robin, or trillium.

Through these the timid Awakening spirit lifts its head like the first trillium of the year.

Many of these names are applied also to other species of trillium.

I plucked my first dandelion on a meadow slope on the 23d, and in the woods, protected by a high ledge, my first trillium.

Then there is a large number of flowers the parts of which go in threes, one of the best known of which is the trillium.

So the trillium, who was telegraph operator, stooped down and dragged up a thread-like root, fine as wire.

The starry flowers of the trillium hung on long peduncles, and the two-inch diameter of the ordinary blossom was doubled.

Word Value for Trillium
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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