CLEOME PINNATA

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Meaning:

Perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome

Synonyms:

Cleome pinnata; desert plume; prince's-plume; Stanleya pinnata

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cleome pinnata" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("Cleome pinnata" is a member of...):

genus Stanleya; Stanleya (prince's plume)

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