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BLOOD FLOWER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does blood flower mean?

• BLOOD FLOWER (noun)
The noun BLOOD FLOWER has 1 sense:

1. tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics

Familiarity information: BLOOD FLOWER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BLOOD FLOWER (noun)

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Meaning:

Tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asclepias curassavica; blood flower; swallowwort

Hypernyms ("blood flower" is a kind of...):

milkweed; silkweed (any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts)

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