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OBEDIENT PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does obedient plant mean?
• OBEDIENT PLANT (noun)
The noun OBEDIENT PLANT has 1 sense:
1. North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers
Familiarity information: OBEDIENT PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
false dragon head; false dragonhead; obedient plant; Physostegia virginiana
Hypernyms ("obedient plant" is a kind of...):
physostegia (any of various plants of the genus Physostegia having sessile linear to oblong leaves and showy white or rose or lavender flowers)
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