meadow beauty

n. Any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, growing in wet ground and having opposite leaves and showy, usually purple flowers. Also called deer grass.

mead′ow beau`ty

n. any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, family Melastomataceae, with rose-pink flowers and large yellow stamens. [1830–40, Amer.]

Thesaurus

Noun

meadow beauty - any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North Americadeer grassgenus Rhexia, Rhexia - deer grasssubshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base

meadow beauty

meadow beauty,

any plant of the genus Rhexia, herbaceous perennials of wet places E of the Rockies, particularly damp pine barrens and sands along the southeast coast. A widespread species, R. virginica, is a common component of cranberry-bog vegetation. Meadow beauties (also called deer grass) are sometimes cultivated, often in bog gardens. They are classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Myrtales, family Melastomataceae.

meadow beauty

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Synonyms for meadow beauty

noun any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers

Synonyms

deer grass

Related Words

genus Rhexia
Rhexia
subshrub
suffrutex

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