wake-robin vs aroid

aroid vs wake-robin

wake-robin and aroid both are nouns.

wake-robin is not an adjective while aroid is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wake-robin	Yes	No	No	No
aroid	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, aroid is a hypernym of wake-robin; that is, aroid is a word with a broader meaning than wake-robin:

wake-robin: common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
aroid: any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe

Other hypernyms of wake-robin include arum.

wake-robin (noun)	aroid (noun)
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	any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe
common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries

wake-robin (adjective)	aroid (adjective)
	relating to a plant of the family Araceae

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