| tassel flower 
 
 1. young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables;
 seeds used as cereal
 • Syn:
 love-lies-bleeding, velvet flower, Amaranthus caudatus
 • Hypernyms:
 amaranth
 2. tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads;
 sometimes placed in genus Cacalia
 • Syn:
 Emilia coccinea, Emilia javanica, Emilia flammea, Cacalia javanica, Cacalia lutea
 • Hypernyms:
 herb, herbaceous plant
 • Member Holonyms:
 Emilia, genus Emilia
 3. tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel-shaped heads of scarlet flowers
 • Syn:
 Emilia sagitta
 • Hypernyms:
 herb, herbaceous plant
 • Member Holonyms:
 Emilia, genus Emilia
 
 
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