POKER PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poker plant mean? 

• POKER PLANT (noun)
  The noun POKER PLANT has 1 sense:

1. clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowers

  Familiarity information: POKER PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POKER PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clump-forming plant of South Africa with spikes of scarlet flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Kniphofia uvaria; poker plant

Hypernyms ("poker plant" is a kind of...):

flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; kniphofia; tritoma (a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers)

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

Kniphofia praecox; red-hot poker (widely cultivated hybrid poker plant)