Source : WordNet®

prince's-plume
     n 1: annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes
          of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia;
          naturalized in North America [syn: {prince's-feather}, {princess
          feather}, {kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate}, {Polygonum
          orientale}]
     2: perennial of southwestern United States having leathery
        blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of
        yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome [syn: {desert
        plume}, {Stanleya pinnata}, {Cleome pinnata}]
     3: tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and
        long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply
        flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal [syn: {prince's-feather},
         {gentleman's-cane}, {red amaranth}, {purple amaranth}, {Amaranthus
        cruentus}, {Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus}, {Amaranthus
        hybridus erythrostachys}]