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]