TALINUM PANICULATUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Talinum paniculatum mean? 

• TALINUM PANICULATUM (noun)
  The noun TALINUM PANICULATUM has 1 sense:

1. erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere

  Familiarity information: TALINUM PANICULATUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TALINUM PANICULATUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

jewels-of-opar; Talinum paniculatum

Hypernyms ("Talinum paniculatum" 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)