prince's-plume

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prince's-plume Definition

• (n) annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
• (n) perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
• (n) 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

prince's-plume Synonyms

• Amaranthus cruentus
• Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys
• Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus
• Cleome pinnata
• desert plume
• gentleman's-cane
• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
• Polygonum orientale
• prince's-feather
• prince's-plume
• princess feather
• purple amaranth
• red amaranth
• Stanleya pinnata