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Meanings of tassel flower in English

Wikidata

Young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal.

        Tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia.

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              Examples for "love-lies-bleeding"
              Examples for "love-lies-bleeding"
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              Shooting up through the petunias and the love-lies-bleeding is a row of sunflowers almost as tall as the ones now yellowing the Nebraska plains.
              The new yorker
              2
              "Now," said Mrs. Dunwiddy, "the devil grass, the St. John the Conqueror root, and the love-lies-bleeding."
              Anansi Boys
              1
              The tall pagoda, like a velvet flower, blossoms against the sky; the Sacred Mountain fades, and in the town a child laughs suddenly.
              Profiles from China / Sketches in Free Verse of People and Thing...
              2
              And lo, what she carried in her beak twinkled and trembled and shone in many colors, like a drop of dew on a velvet flower-cheek.
              The Curious Book of Birds
              3
              A 1937 calendar, paper dolls, blue bow and velvet flowers all cosseted in a chocolate box.
              Radio NZ
              4
              On mantelets of silk, entirely embroidered velvet ribbon is worn; or stamped velvet flowers, upon the stuff, produce a very pleasing effect.
              The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851

              Tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel-shaped heads of scarlet flowers.

                    Usage of tassel flower in English
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                    The scarlet tassel -flower utterly refuses to unfold his brave plumes.
                    Gala-Days