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SPINY TALINUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spiny talinum mean?
• SPINY TALINUM (noun)
The noun SPINY TALINUM has 1 sense:
1. low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States
Familiarity information: SPINY TALINUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
spiny talinum; Talinum spinescens
Hypernyms ("spiny talinum" is a kind of...):
flame-flower; flame flower; flameflower; Talinum aurantiacum (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)
Holonyms ("spiny talinum" is a member of...):
genus Talinum; Talinum (genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs)
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