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STARFISH FLOWER

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Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers

Synonyms:

carrion flower; stapelia; starfish flower

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("starfish 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 "starfish flower"):

Stapelias asterias (stapelia of Cape Province having mostly dark red-brown flowers with flat starlike corollas)

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

genus Stapelia (genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East India)

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