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 Meaning of PRINCE'S-PLUME
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[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  [n]  perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome  [n]  annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America   |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  | Synonyms: |  | Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, Cleome pinnata, desert plume, gentleman's-cane, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, Polygonum orientale, prince's-feather, princess feather, purple amaranth, red amaranth, Stanleya pinnata |  |  |  |  | See Also: |  | amaranth, genus Polygonum, genus Stanleya, Polygonum, Stanleya, subshrub, suffrutex |  |     |    |  |