BLOODLEAF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bloodleaf mean? 

• BLOODLEAF (noun)
  The noun BLOODLEAF has 1 sense:

1. any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage

  Familiarity information: BLOODLEAF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOODLEAF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bloodleaf" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bloodleaf"):

beef plant; beefsteak plant; Iresine herbstii; Iresine reticulata (South American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts)

Holonyms ("bloodleaf" is a member of...):

genus Iresine; Iresine (genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs)