flameflower

A noun referring to a plant with long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers, belonging to the genus Kniphofia, or a plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil, native to the southwestern United States.

• 🇷🇺Существительное, обозначающее растение с длинными травянистыми листьями и высокими цветоносами с красными или желтыми поникающими цветками, относящееся к роду Книпхофия, или растение с мясистыми корнями и прямостоячими стеблями с узкими сочными листьями и одним красновато-оранжевым цветком в каждой верхней пазухе листа, произрастающее на юго-западе США.

1. Red-hot poker plant C1 formal

   A plant of the genus Kniphofia, characterized by long grasslike leaves and tall stalks bearing drooping red or yellow flowers.

   • The flameflower added a vibrant splash of color to the garden.
   • She planted several flameflowers along the border for a dramatic effect.
   • The tall scapes of the flameflower attracted many hummingbirds.

   🇷🇺Растение-красно-горячая кочерга

   Синонимы: flame-flowerred-hot pokertritoma

2. Talinum aurantiacum C1 formal american

   A plant with fleshy roots and erect stems, narrow succulent leaves, and one reddish-orange flower per upper leaf axil, native to the southwestern United States; its roots were once cooked by Indigenous peoples.

   • The flameflower thrives in the arid conditions of the southwestern desert.
   • Botanists studied the flameflower's adaptation to dry climates.
   • Historically, the fleshy roots of the flameflower were a food source for Native Americans.

   🇷🇺Талинум оранжевый

• flameflowers plural form
• flameflowers' possessive plural form
• flameflower's possessive singular form