[App. f. WAKE v. + ROBIN.]
1. The plant Arum maculatum, also commonly called cuckoo-pint, lords-and-ladies, etc.
1530. Palsgr., 286/1. Wakerobyn an herbe.
1538. Elyot, Dict., Addit., Aros, an herbe callyd wake Robyn.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. ccxc. 684. There be diuers sorts of wake Robin or Cockow pint.
1601. Lyly, Love’s Metam., I. ii. They haue eaten so much wake-Robin, that they cannot sleepe for loue.
1725. Bradley’s Family Dict., Wake-robin or Calvesfoot, in Latin Arum.… The Root of this plant is purgative and penetrating; they prepare a powder of it that is used in Astma’s, Dropsy, and Hypocondriac Melancholy.
1837. M. Donovan, Dom. Econ., II. 255. The root of the arum maculatum, or wake-robin.
b. dial. The purple orchis, Orchis maculata. c. The red campion, Lychnis diurna.
1905. Eng. Dial. Dict.
2. In U.S. applied (a) to certain araceous plants, esp. Peltandra undulata (or virginica, formerly called Arum virginicum), arrow-arum, TUCKAHOE; (b) to liliaceous plants of the genus Trillium (esp. the white-flowered species).
c. 1711. Petiver, Gazophyl., I. i. In South Carolina … it Flowers in June and July, and is called by them Wake-Robin. Ibid., VI. lx. A whitish flowred Arum or Wake Robin, with cordated narrow pointed Leaves.
1770. J. R. Forster, trans. Kalm’s Trav. N. Amer., I. 125. The Virginian Wake robin, or Arum Virginicum, grows in wet places.
1871. Burroughs, Wake-Robin, Pref. (1884), p. vi. Wake-Robin—the common name of the white Trillium.
1884. W. Miller, Plant-n., 143. Wake-Robin, American, Arum dracontium, Trillium grandiflorum, and T. cernuum.
1915. Mrs. Stratton-Porter, M. O’Halloran, ii. 37. So long as I could find a scrap of arbutus, a violet or a wake-robin from the woods.
3. In the West Indies and tropical America, applied to certain araceous plants of either of the genera Anthurium (tail-flower) and Philodendron.
1864. Grisebach, Flora W. Ind. Isl., 788. Wake-robin, Anthurium and Philodendron.
