wake-robin vs red trillium

red trillium vs wake-robin

wake-robin and red trillium both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wake-robin	Yes	No	No	No
red trillium	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, red trillium is a hyponym of wake-robin; that is, red trillium is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than wake-robin:

wake-robin: 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
red trillium: trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth

Other hyponyms of wake-robin include prairie trillium, prairie wake-robin, Trillium recurvatum, dwarf-white trillium, early wake-robin, snow trillium, birthroot, purple trillium, Trillium erectum, sessile trillium, toadshade, Trillium sessile.

wake-robin (noun)	red trillium (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	trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth
common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries	trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor

Difference between wake-robin and red trillium

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