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prince's-plume
n 1: 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}]
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}]
3: 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}]