Rocky Mountain bee plant

Rocky Mountain bee plant
noun
plant of western North America having trifoliate leaves and white or pink spider-shaped flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental
Hypernyms: ↑spiderflower, ↑cleome

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized R&M
: a spiderflower (Cleome serrulata) of north central and western No. America sometimes used as an ornamental — called also stinking clover

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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