Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dwarf tufted plants, natural order Amarantaceœ: so called from the stamens being alternately fertile and barren.
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- noun Any of the
genus Alternanthera ofherbaceous plants in theamaranth family.
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- noun genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera
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Examples
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Lakshmi said ... btw it has botanical name 'alternanthera sesilis'
Wild Greens, HonegoNe Stir Fry Anjali 2007
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-- Border, red alternanthera; second row, dwarf orange or yellow nasturtium; third row, Achyranthes Gilsoni, or Acalypha tricolor; central square, scarlet geraniums, with a border of Centaurea gymnocarpa; intervening spaces, grass.
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Border, dwarf blue ageratum; circle, blue lobelia; ground (3 parts), crimson alternanthera.
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Alternanthera aurea nana; third row, red alternanthera; center,
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-- Outside, red alternanthera; middle, dusty miller; center, pink geranium.
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No. 16 -- Border, crimson alternanthera (another border of yellow alternanthera might be placed inside of this); ground, Echeveria secunda glauca; inner border, Oxalis tropæoloides; center, Alternanthera aurea nana.
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