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Meaning of PRINCE'S-PLUME

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  1. [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
  2. [n]  perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
  3. [n]  annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
 
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 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

 

 

 

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