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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers;
[syn: kniphofia, tritoma, flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower]

2. 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;
[syn: flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower, Talinum aurantiacum]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

flameflower \flameflower\, flame flower \flame flower\n. 1. a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers. Syn: kniphofia, tritoma. [WordNet 1.5] 2. plant of the Southwestern U. S. with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil. Its fleshy roots were once cooked by Indians. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

flame flower n 1: a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers [syn: kniphofia, tritoma, flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower] 2: 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 [syn: flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower, Talinum aurantiacum]