talinum : Idioms & Phrases

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genus talinum

  • noun genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs
    Talinum.
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pigmy talinum

  • noun low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States
    pigmy talinum.
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spiny talinum

  • noun low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States
    spiny talinum.
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talinum augustissimum

  • noun similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers; southwestern United States
    narrow-leaved flame flower.
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talinum aurantiacum

  • noun 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
    flameflower; flame flower; flame-flower.
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talinum brevifolium

  • noun low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States
    pigmy talinum.
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talinum calycinum

  • noun pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States
    rock pink.
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talinum paniculatum

  • noun erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere
    jewels-of-opar.
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talinum spinescens

  • noun low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States
    spiny talinum.
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