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shrimp plant

American

noun

a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (orBeloperone guttata ), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.

First recorded in 1940–45

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