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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 wake-rob·in /ˈwekˌrɑbən/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wake-rob·in n. Bot. Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).
 Note: ☞ In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]
      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, Arisaema
          triphyllum, Arisaema atrorubens]