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ROUGE PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rouge plant mean? 

ROUGE PLANT (noun)
  The noun ROUGE PLANT has 1 sense:

1. bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americasplay

  Familiarity information: ROUGE PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ROUGE PLANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blood berry; bloodberry; Rivina humilis; rouge plant; rougeberry

Hypernyms ("rouge plant" is a kind of...):

houseplant (any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes)

Holonyms ("rouge plant" is a member of...):

genus Rivina; Rivina (small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs; tropical and subtropical America)


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