prince's-plume

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noun

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, red amaranth, purple amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus,
Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys
• Hypernyms:
amaranth
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, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata
• Hypernyms:
subshrub, suffrutex
• Member Holonyms:
Stanleya, genus Stanleya
3. 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, Polygonum orientale
• Hypernyms:
subshrub, suffrutex
• Member Holonyms:
Polygonum, genus Polygonum