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POLYGONUM ORIENTALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
Synonyms:
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate; Polygonum orientale; prince's-feather; prince's-plume; princess feather
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Polygonum orientale" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Holonyms ("Polygonum orientale" is a member of...):
genus Polygonum; Polygonum (diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions)