Source : WordNet®

beefsteak plant
     n 1: plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage [syn: {Perilla
          frutescens crispa}]
     2: South American plant having green to purple or red branches
        with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of
        insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts
        [syn: {beef plant}, {Iresine herbstii}, {Iresine
        reticulata}]