Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun birthroot

1 sense of birthroot

Sense 1
purple trillium, red trillium, birthroot, Trillium erectum -- (trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth)
       => trillium, wood lily, 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)