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ROAST BEEF PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa
Synonyms:
gladdon; gladdon iris; Iris foetidissima; roast beef plant; stinking gladwyn; stinking iris
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Hypernyms ("roast beef plant" is a kind of...):
flag; fleur-de-lis; iris; sword lily (plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals)