'flameflower' definitions:
Definition of 'flameflower'
From: WordNet
noun
A plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers [syn: kniphofia, tritoma, flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower]
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 [syn: flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower, Talinum aurantiacum]
Definition of 'flameflower'
From: GCIDE
- flameflower \flameflower\, flame flower \flame flower\n.
- 1. a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers.
- Syn: kniphofia, tritoma. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. plant of the Southwestern U. S. with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil. Its fleshy roots were once cooked by Indians. [WordNet 1.5]