BLOOD FLOWER

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Meaning:

Tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics

Synonyms:

Asclepias curassavica; blood flower; swallowwort

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blood flower" is a kind of...):

milkweed; silkweed (any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts)