| NOUN | plant | prince's-feather, princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale | annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers |
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| plant | prince's-feather, gentleman's-cane, prince's-plume, red amaranth, purple amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys | tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple |
| Meaning | Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America. | |
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| Synonyms | princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale | |
| Member of | Polygonum, genus Polygonum | diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions |
| Broader | subshrub, suffrutex | low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonyms | gentleman's-cane, prince's-plume, red amaranth, purple amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys | |
| Broader | amaranth | Any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers |
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