BEEF PLANT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

South American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts

Synonyms:

beef plant; beefsteak plant; Iresine herbstii; Iresine reticulata

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("beef plant" is a kind of...):

bloodleaf (any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage)

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