POKER PLANT

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Meaning:

Clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowers

Synonyms:

Kniphofia uvaria; poker plant

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Nouns denoting plants

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

flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; kniphofia; tritoma (a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poker plant"):

Kniphofia praecox; red-hot poker (widely cultivated hybrid poker plant)

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