"unicorn plant" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: unicorn plants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} unicorn plant (plural unicorn plants)
  1. Any of certain species of the flowering plant genus Proboscidea. Categories (lifeform): Lamiales order plants Derived forms: common unicorn plant (taxonomic: Proboscidea louisianica), desert unicorn plant (taxonomic: Proboscidea althaeifolia), dune unicorn plant (taxonomic: Proboscidea sabulosa), New Mexico unicorn plant (taxonomic: Proboscidea spicata), sweet unicorn plant (alt: syn. Martynia fragrans) (taxonomic: Proboscidea fragrans), yellow unicorn plant (alt: syn. Proboscidea lutea) (taxonomic: Ibicella lutea)

Inflected forms

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