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DESERT PLUME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does desert plume mean? 

DESERT PLUME (noun)
  The noun DESERT PLUME has 1 sense:

1. perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleomeplay

  Familiarity information: DESERT PLUME used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DESERT PLUME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cleome pinnata; desert plume; prince's-plume; Stanleya pinnata

Hypernyms ("desert plume" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("desert plume" is a member of...):

genus Stanleya; Stanleya (prince's plume)


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