noun
1. plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage
• Syn: ↑Perilla frutescens crispa
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Perilla, ↑genus Perilla
2. 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
• Syn: ↑beef plant, ↑Iresine herbstii, ↑Iresine reticulata
• Hypernyms: ↑bloodleaf
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noun : any of several plants having red or purple foliage: as
a. : an ornamental foliage plant (Perilla frutescens crispa)
b. : a wood betony (Pedicularis canadensis)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.