cigar flower

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noun

the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.

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How to use cigar flower in a sentence

He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).
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Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
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There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack.
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I decorated with marigolds, which are considered the flower of the dead.
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She was obsessed with the flower-printed, scented toilet paper.
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Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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The young men gathered round him and offered him a cigar, which he accepted and began to smoke.
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Young Lamb's big cigar has been out long ago; but he pulls hard at it, wholly unaware of the fact.
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The flower stems on the American varieties are much longer than those of European tobaccos and also larger.
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The perspiration stands on young Lamb's face; again his cigar goes out.
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