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TALINUM PANICULATUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere
Synonyms:
jewels-of-opar; Talinum paniculatum
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Hypernyms ("Talinum paniculatum" is a kind of...):
flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; Talinum aurantiacum (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)