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Detailed Synonyms for prince's-plume in English

prince's-plume:

prince's-plume [the ~] nom

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

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Related Definitions for "prince's-plume":

  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 cereal1
  2. perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome1
  3. annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America1

Related Synonyms for prince's-plume