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Meanings of prince's-plume in anglès

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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.

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      Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America.

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            Examples for "prince's-feather"
            Examples for "prince's-feather"
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            "And prince's-feather," added the lawyer, reminiscently; "that used to be a favourite of mine, I remember, when I was a country lad."
            The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
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            "I trust he found the young gentleman's cane."
            Westways: A Village Chronicle

            Perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome.

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