princes-feather (n.)

  1. annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America

    [ Syn: princes-feather , princess feather , kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate , princes-plume , polygonum orientale ]

  2. tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal

    [ Syn: princes-feather , gentlemans-cane , princes-plume , red amaranth , purple amaranth , amaranthus cruentus , amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus , amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys ]

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