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zebra plant

American  

noun

  1. any of several plants having conspicuously striped or veined foliage, as Calathea zebrina, of Brazil.


zebra plant British  

noun

  1. See calathea

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In particular the discovery that the golden dead-nettle and the zebra plant use a dual-function flavin-containing monooxygenase, rather than two different cytochrome P450 enzymes as in grasses, was completely unexpected.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2023

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