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BURN PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does burn plant mean?
• BURN PLANT (noun)
The noun BURN PLANT has 1 sense:
1. very short-stemmed plant with thick leaves with soothing mucilaginous juice; leaves develop spiny margins with maturity; native to Mediterranean region; grown widely in tropics and as houseplants
Familiarity information: BURN PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very short-stemmed plant with thick leaves with soothing mucilaginous juice; leaves develop spiny margins with maturity; native to Mediterranean region; grown widely in tropics and as houseplants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Aloe vera; burn plant
Hypernyms ("burn plant" is a kind of...):
aloe (succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa)
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