flameflower

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A name of species of Kniphofia (Tritoma), bulbous plants from the Cape of Good Hope. Also called red-hot-poker.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers.
• noun plant of the Southwestern U. S. with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil. Its fleshy roots were once cooked by Indians.

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• noun a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers
• noun plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots
• noun plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots
• noun a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers
• noun plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots
• noun a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers