POLYGONUM ORIENTALE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Polygonum orientale mean? • POLYGONUM ORIENTALE (noun)
The noun POLYGONUM ORIENTALE has 1 sense:
1. annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
Familiarity information: POLYGONUM ORIENTALE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• POLYGONUM ORIENTALE (noun)
Meaning:
Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate; Polygonum orientale; prince's-feather; prince's-plume; princess feather
Hypernyms ("Polygonum orientale" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Holonyms ("Polygonum orientale" is a member of...):
genus Polygonum; Polygonum (diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions)
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