 |
prince's-plume noun
Meaning : Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers. Southeastern Asia and Australia. Naturalized in North America.
Synonyms : kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, polygonum orientale, prince's-feather, princess feather
Meaning : 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, desert plume, stanleya pinnata
Meaning : 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
