flameflower
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1. 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 (noun.plant)
| hyponym | : | pigmy talinum, talinum brevifolium, |
| definition | : | low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | jewels-of-opar, talinum paniculatum, |
| definition | : | erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | spiny talinum, talinum spinescens, |
| definition | : | low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus talinum, talinum, |
| definition | : | genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs (noun.plant) |
2. a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus kniphofia, |
| definition | : | genus of showy clump-forming African herbs with grasslike leaves; sometimes placed in family Aloeaceae (noun.plant) |
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