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FLAME-FLOWER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots
Synonyms:
flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; Talinum aurantiacum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("flame-flower" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flame-flower"):
narrow-leaved flame flower; Talinum augustissimum (similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers; southwestern United States)
pigmy talinum; Talinum brevifolium (low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States)
rock pink; Talinum calycinum (pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States)
jewels-of-opar; Talinum paniculatum (erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere)
spiny talinum; Talinum spinescens (low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States)
Holonyms ("flame-flower" is a member of...):
genus Talinum; Talinum (genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers
Synonyms:
flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; kniphofia; tritoma
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("flame-flower" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flame-flower"):
Kniphofia uvaria; poker plant (clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowers)
Holonyms ("flame-flower" is a member of...):
genus Kniphofia (genus of showy clump-forming African herbs with grasslike leaves; sometimes placed in family Aloeaceae)
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