Usage of "prince's-plume"

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.

prince's-feather
gentleman's-cane
red amaranth
purple amaranth
Amaranthus cruentus

Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus
Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys

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

princess feather
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
Polygonum orientale

Synonyms

Examples for "prince's-feather"

"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 

"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.

desert plume
Stanleya pinnata
Cleome pinnata

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Meanings of prince's-plume in English