BEEF PLANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does beef plant mean? • BEEF PLANT (noun)
The noun BEEF PLANT has 1 sense:
1. South American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts
Familiarity information: BEEF PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BEEF PLANT (noun)
Meaning:
South American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
beef plant; Iresine herbstii; Iresine reticulata; beefsteak plant
Hypernyms ("beef plant" is a kind of...):
bloodleaf (any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage)
| Learn English with... Proverbs of the week | |
"Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today." (English proverb)
"The way the arrow hits the target is more important than the way it is shot; the way you listen is more important than the way you talk." (Bhutanese proverb)
"If you can't reward then you should thank." (Arabic proverb)
"Better safe than sorry." (Croatian proverb)
Page delivered in 0.0359 seconds
|
