JEWELS-OF-OPAR
Dictionary entry overview: What does jewels-of-opar mean? • JEWELS-OF-OPAR (noun)
The noun JEWELS-OF-OPAR 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: JEWELS-OF-OPAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• JEWELS-OF-OPAR (noun)
Meaning:
Erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
jewels-of-opar; Talinum paniculatum
Hypernyms ("jewels-of-opar" 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)
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