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 prince's-plume
      n 1: annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes
           of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia;
           naturalized in North America [syn: prince's-feather, princess
           feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, Polygonum
           orientale]
      2: perennial of southwestern United States having leathery
         blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of
         yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome [syn: desert
         plume, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata]
      3: 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: prince's-feather,
          gentleman's-cane, red amaranth, purple amaranth, Amaranthus
         cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, Amaranthus
         hybridus erythrostachys]