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    VELVET PLANT

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairsplay

    Synonyms:

    Gynura aurantiaca; purple velvet plant; royal velvet plant; velvet plant

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("velvet plant" is a kind of...):

    houseplant (any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes)

    Holonyms ("velvet plant" is a member of...):

    genus Gynura; Gynura (genus of Old World tropical herbs: velvet plants)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    flannel leaf; mullein; velvet plant

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("velvet plant" is a kind of...):

    herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "velvet plant"):

    moth mullein; Verbascum blattaria (European mullein with smooth leaves and large yellow or purplish flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America)

    Verbascum lychnitis; white mullein (densely hairy Eurasian herb with racemose white flowers; naturalized in North America)

    purple mullein; Verbascum phoeniceum (Eurasian mullein with showy purple or pink flowers)

    Aaron's rod; common mullein; flannel mullein; great mullein; torch; Verbascum thapsus; woolly mullein (tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches)

    Holonyms ("velvet plant" is a member of...):

    genus Verbascum; Verbascum (genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves)

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