purple amaranth

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purple amaranth - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  purple amaranth
      n 1: 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
           ]