prince's-feather

prince's-feather
noun
1. 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
• Syn:
• Hypernyms: ↑amaranth
2. annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
• Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex
• Member Holonyms: ↑Polygonum, ↑genus Polygonum

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\\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun (plural prince's-feathers)
1. : a showy annual plant (Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus) often cultivated for its dense usually red spikes of bloom
2. : a plant (Polygonum orientale) with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping crimson spikes — called also gentleman's-cane, prince's-plume
3. : lilac 1 a

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/prin"siz feth"euhr/, n.
1. a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
2. a hairy, much-branched, plant, Polygonum orientale, of the buckwheat family, native to Asia and Australia, having pink or rose-colored flower spikes, naturalized in North America.
[1620-30]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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