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velvet plant — noun 1. any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers • Syn: ↑mullein, ↑flannel leaf • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
royal velvet plant — noun Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet purple hairs • Syn: ↑velvet plant, ↑purple velvet plant, ↑Gynura aurantiaca • Hypernyms: ↑houseplant • Member Holonyms: ↑Gynura, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
velvet plant — 1. a composite plant, Gynura aurantiaca, native to the Old World tropics, having leaves and stems covered with dense, velvety, purple hairs and often cultivated as a houseplant. Cf. purple passion. 2. the common mullein, Verbascum thapsus. * * * … Universalium
velvet grass — ▪ plant also called Yorkshire fog (species Holcus lanatus) one of eight perennial grasses constituting the genus Holcus (family Poaceae), native to Europe and Africa. It has tufted flower clusters that may be white, green, pink, or purple … Universalium
purple mullein — noun Eurasian mullein with showy purple or pink flowers • Syn: ↑Verbascum phoeniceum • Hypernyms: ↑mullein, ↑flannel leaf, ↑velvet plant * * * noun : a Eurasian mullein (Verbascum phoeniceum) having show … Useful english dictionary
purple passion — a variety of the velvet plant, Gynura aurantiaca, having trailing stems and leaves densely covered with purple hairs, grown as a houseplant. * * * … Universalium
purple passion — a variety of the velvet plant, Gynura aurantiaca, having trailing stems and leaves densely covered with purple hairs, grown as a houseplant … Useful english dictionary
herbaceous plant — noun a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests • Syn: ↑herb • Derivationally related forms: ↑herbal (for: ↑herb) • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Indian purple — Indian In di*an (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus, the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. ?, OPers. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus. Cf. {Hindu}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to India… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Nama (plant) — Nama Nama demissum, Nevada desert Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae … Wikipedia
