KISS-ME-OVER-THE-GARDEN-GATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate mean? 

• KISS-ME-OVER-THE-GARDEN-GATE (noun)
  The noun KISS-ME-OVER-THE-GARDEN-GATE has 1 sense:

1. annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America

  Familiarity information: KISS-ME-OVER-THE-GARDEN-GATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KISS-ME-OVER-THE-GARDEN-GATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate; Polygonum orientale; prince's-feather; prince's-plume; princess feather

Hypernyms ("kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate" is a member of...):

genus Polygonum; Polygonum (diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions)