tassel : Idioms & Phrases


Tassel flower

  • noun tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel-shaped heads of scarlet flowers
    Emilia sagitta.
  • noun tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia
    Emilia coccinea; Emilia flammea; Cacalia lutea; Emilia javanica; Cacalia javanica.
  • noun young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal
    velvet flower; Amaranthus caudatus; love-lies-bleeding.
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  • (Bot.), a name of several composite plants of the genus Cineraria, especially the C. sconchifolia, and of the blossoms which they bear.
Webster 1913

tassel hyacinth

  • noun large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers
    Muscari comosum.
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tassel-shaped

  • adjective satellite shaped like a tassel
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