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BEEF PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beef plant mean?
• BEEF PLANT (noun)
The noun BEEF PLANT has 1 sense:
1. South American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts
Familiarity information: BEEF PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
South American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
beef plant; beefsteak plant; Iresine herbstii; Iresine reticulata
Hypernyms ("beef plant" is a kind of...):
bloodleaf (any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage)
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