1. (noun) annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America

• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
• polygonum orientale
• prince's-feather
• princess feather

2. (noun) perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome

• cleome pinnata
• desert plume
• stanleya pinnata

3. (noun) 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

• amaranthus cruentus
• amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys
• amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus
• gentleman's-cane
• prince's-feather
• purple amaranth
• red amaranth

1. (noun) annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America

• subshrub
• suffrutex

2. (noun) perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome

• subshrub
• suffrutex

3. (noun) 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

• amaranth

1. (noun) annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America

• genus polygonum
• polygonum

2. (noun) perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome

• genus stanleya
• stanleya