单词 | prince's-feather |
释义 | prince's-feather (once / 1688473 pages) n WORD FAMILY prince's-feather USAGE EXAMPLESThe last bee had ceased to drone about the great crimson prince's-feather by the door-step, worn purplish through long flaunting, and gone to seed. Murfree, Mary Noailles, The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and...(2011) The last bee had ceased to drone about the great crimson prince's-feather by the door-step, worn purplish through long flaunting, and gone to seed. Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), His "Day In Court"—1895(2010) "And prince's-feather," added the lawyer, reminiscently; "that used to be a favourite of mine, I remember, when I was a country lad." Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, The Deliverance; a romance of the V...(2010) 1n annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America Syn|Hyper Polygonum orientale, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, prince's-plume, princess feather subshrub, suffrutex low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base 2n tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal Syn|Hyper Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, gentleman's-cane, prince's-plume, purple amaranth, red amaranth amaranth any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food |
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