SPINY TALINUM

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Meaning:

Low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States

Synonyms:

spiny talinum; Talinum spinescens

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("spiny talinum" is a kind of...):

flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; Talinum aurantiacum (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)

Holonyms ("spiny talinum" is a member of...):

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

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