ROAST BEEF PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roast beef plant mean? 

• ROAST BEEF PLANT (noun)
  The noun ROAST BEEF PLANT has 1 sense:

1. iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROAST BEEF PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

gladdon; gladdon iris; Iris foetidissima; roast beef plant; stinking gladwyn; stinking iris

Hypernyms ("roast beef plant" is a kind of...):

flag; fleur-de-lis; iris; sword lily (plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals)