'prince's-plume' definitions:

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, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale]

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, prince's-plume, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata]

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, prince's-plume, red amaranth, purple amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus, Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys]