cleome
any of numerous strong-smelling plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Cleome, of the caper family, mostly natives of tropical regions, and often bearing showy flowers.
Origin of cleome
1- Also called spider plant.
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How to use cleome in a sentence
Its therapeutic properties are identical with those of the cleome viscosa.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines | T. H. Pardo de TaveraFor this purpose they often use the dry, brittle stalks of the common bee weed (cleome pungens).
Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 | Cosmos MindeleffThere are several kinds of Cleomella, resembling cleome, except that the pods are different.
Field Book of Western Wild Flowers | Margaret ArmstrongThe Malope grandiflora and the cleome are fine tall annuals.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy | Catherine Esther Beecher
British Dictionary definitions for cleome
/ (klɪˈəʊmɪ) /
any herbaceous or shrubby plant of the mostly tropical capparidaceous genus Cleome, esp C. spinosa, cultivated for their clusters of white or purplish flowers with long stamens
Origin of cleome
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