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RED-HOT POKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does red-hot poker mean?
• RED-HOT POKER (noun)
The noun RED-HOT POKER has 1 sense:
1. widely cultivated hybrid poker plant
Familiarity information: RED-HOT POKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely cultivated hybrid poker plant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Kniphofia praecox; red-hot poker
Hypernyms ("red-hot poker" is a kind of...):
Kniphofia uvaria; poker plant (clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowers)
Context examples
I believe I had a delirious idea of seizing the red-hot poker out of the fire, and running him through with it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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