Tassel flower Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel-shaped heads of scarlet flowers
    Emilia sagitta.
  2. noun tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Cacalia
    Emilia coccinea; Emilia flammea; Cacalia lutea; Emilia javanica; Cacalia javanica.
  3. noun young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal
    velvet flower; Amaranthus caudatus; love-lies-bleeding.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a name of several composite plants of the genus Cineraria, especially the C. sconchifolia, and of the blossoms which they bear.

Webster 1913