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Carrion Flower

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Noun

1. carrion flower, stapelia, starfish flower

any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Carrion Flower

see synonyms of carrion flower
noun
1. 
a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
2. 
any of several other plants, esp any of the genus Stapelia, whose flowers have an unpleasant odour

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Carrion Flower

see synonyms of carrion flower
1. 
a perennial vine (Smilax herbacea) of the lily family, with greenish, foul-smelling flowers
2.  Nontechnical
stapelia

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Carrion Flower

see synonyms of carrion flower
n.
1. Any of several North American plants of the genus Smilax, especially S. herbacea, an herbaceous tendril-bearing vine having clusters of small greenish flowers with the odor of decaying flesh.
2. Any of various plants having flowers that emit a foul odor, especially stapelia.

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