FLAME-FLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flame-flower mean? 

• FLAME-FLOWER (noun)
  The noun FLAME-FLOWER has 2 senses:

1. a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers

2. plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots

  Familiarity information: FLAME-FLOWER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAME-FLOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; kniphofia; tritoma

Hypernyms ("flame-flower" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flame-flower"):

Kniphofia uvaria; poker plant (clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowers)

Holonyms ("flame-flower" is a member of...):

genus Kniphofia (genus of showy clump-forming African herbs with grasslike leaves; sometimes placed in family Aloeaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; Talinum aurantiacum

Hypernyms ("flame-flower" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flame-flower"):

narrow-leaved flame flower; Talinum augustissimum (similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers; southwestern United States)

pigmy talinum; Talinum brevifolium (low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States)

rock pink; Talinum calycinum (pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States)

jewels-of-opar; Talinum paniculatum (erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere)

spiny talinum; Talinum spinescens (low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States)

Holonyms ("flame-flower" is a member of...):

genus Talinum; Talinum (genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs)