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prince's-plume

DEFINITIONS OF: prince's-plume

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n annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America

Synonyms:
Polygonum orientale, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, prince's-feather, princess feather
Type of:
subshrub, suffrutex
low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base

n tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal

Synonyms:
Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, gentleman's-cane, prince's-feather, purple amaranth, red amaranth
Type of:
amaranth
any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food

n perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome

Synonyms:
Cleome pinnata, Stanleya pinnata, desert plume
Type of:
subshrub, suffrutex
low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base
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