prince's-plume

Noun

• tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal

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

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  prince's-feather , gentleman's-cane , red amaranth , purple amaranth , Amaranthus cruentus , Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus , Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys , desert plume , Stanleya pinnata , Cleome pinnata , princess feather , kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate , Polygonum