Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun prince's-plume

3 senses of prince's-plume

Sense 1
prince's-feather, princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale -- (annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America)
       => subshrub, suffrutex -- (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Sense 2
desert plume, prince's-plume, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata -- (perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome)
       => subshrub, suffrutex -- (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Sense 3
prince's-feather, gentleman's-cane, prince's-plume, red amaranth, purple amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys -- (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)
       => amaranth -- (any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food)