- Stapelias asterias
- nounstapelia of Cape Province having mostly dark red-brown flowers with flat starlike corollas• Hypernyms: ↑stapelia, ↑carrion flower, ↑starfish flower• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Stapelia
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Stapelias asterias
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starfish flower — noun any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul smelling (often star shaped) flowers • Syn: ↑stapelia, ↑carrion flower • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
carrion flower — noun any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul smelling (often star shaped) flowers • Syn: ↑stapelia, ↑starfish flower • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
genus Stapelia — noun genus of foul smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East India • Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Asclepiadaceae, ↑family Asclepiadaceae, ↑milkweed family • Memb … Useful english dictionary
