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FLAME FLOWER

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Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; Talinum aurantiacum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("flame flower" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flame flower"):

narrow-leaved flame flower; Talinum augustissimum (similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers; southwestern United States)

pigmy talinum; Talinum brevifolium (low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States)

rock pink; Talinum calycinum (pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States)

jewels-of-opar; Talinum paniculatum (erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere)

spiny talinum; Talinum spinescens (low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States)

Holonyms ("flame flower" is a member of...):

genus Talinum; Talinum (genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers

Synonyms:

flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; kniphofia; tritoma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("flame flower" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flame flower"):

Kniphofia uvaria; poker plant (clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowers)

Holonyms ("flame flower" is a member of...):

genus Kniphofia (genus of showy clump-forming African herbs with grasslike leaves; sometimes placed in family Aloeaceae)

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