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PURPLE VELVET PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does purple velvet plant mean?
• PURPLE VELVET PLANT (noun)
The noun PURPLE VELVET PLANT has 1 sense:
1. Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs
Familiarity information: PURPLE VELVET PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gynura aurantiaca; purple velvet plant; royal velvet plant; velvet plant
Hypernyms ("purple velvet plant" is a kind of...):
houseplant (any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes)
Holonyms ("purple velvet plant" is a member of...):
genus Gynura; Gynura (genus of Old World tropical herbs: velvet plants)
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