prince's-plume

prince's-plume
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. perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
• Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex
• Member Holonyms: ↑Stanleya, ↑genus Stanleya
3. 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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