noun
1. tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics
• Syn: ↑blood flower, ↑Asclepias curassavica
2. perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers
• Syn: ↑celandine, ↑greater celandine, ↑swallow wort, ↑Chelidonium majus
• Hypernyms: ↑poppy
• Member Holonyms: ↑Chelidonium, ↑genus Chelidonium
Useful english dictionary. 2012.