beefsteak plant Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage
    Perilla frutescens crispa.
  2. noun South American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts
    Iresine herbstii; beef plant; Iresine reticulata.

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