prince's-plume

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prince's-plume - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  prince's-plume
      n 1: annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping
           spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia;
           naturalized in North America [syn: prince's-feather,
           princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate,
           prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale]
      2: perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-
         green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow
         flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome [syn: desert   plume
         , prince's-plume, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome   pinnata
         ]
      3: 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:
         prince's-feather, gentleman's-cane, prince's-plume,
         red amaranth, purple amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus,
         Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, Amaranthus hybridus   erythrostachys
         ]