princess feather

princess feather
noun
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

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