Akademik

Joseph's coat

noun

perennial aromatic herb of southeastern Asia having large usually bright-colored or blotched leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Solenostemon

• Syn: ↑painted nettle, ↑Coleus blumei, ↑Solenostemon blumei, ↑Solenostemon scutellarioides

• Hypernyms: ↑coleus, ↑flame nettle

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized J

Etymology: after Joseph, Old Testament patriarch; from his coat of many colors (Gen 37:3 — AV)

1. : a coat of many colors

a country as dappled and patchy as Joseph's coat — T.H.Fielding

2. : any of certain plants with variegated foliage: as

a. : a tampala with red and green variegated leaves grown as an ornamental

b. : coleus 2

Useful english dictionary. 2012.