tassel : Idioms & Phrases

• noun tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel-shaped heads of scarlet flowers
  Emilia sagitta.
  
• 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.
  
• noun young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal
  velvet flower; Amaranthus caudatus; love-lies-bleeding.
  

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

Webster 1913

• noun large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers
  Muscari comosum.
  

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• adjective satellite shaped like a tassel
  

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