Definitions
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- adjective having red flowers
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Examples
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I place a framed photograph of her in her favorite red-flowered dress, smiling, her arms outstretched toward the viewer.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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I place a framed photograph of her in her favorite red-flowered dress, smiling, her arms outstretched toward the viewer.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Branches of the red-flowered tulipan tree beat against the windows.
Watching Pablo Sleep 2008
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Branches of the red-flowered tulipan tree beat against the windows.
Watching Pablo Sleep 2008
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The western district is the most extensive, hosting the characteristic red-flowered Kunhardtia rhodantha, shrubby melastomes of the genera Graffenrieda and Meriania, and a number of endemic Phyllanthus species.
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‘Diane’ is a red-flowered form with spreading branches.
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The Western District is the most extensive of sandstone and granitic mountains hosting the characteristic red-flowered Kunhardtia rhodantha, shrubby melastomes Graffenrieda and Meriania, and a number of endemic Phyllanthus species.
Tepuis 2008
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Hierba de conejo (Indian paintbrush) castilleja lanata: Growing wild in desert areas of the United States and Mexico, this bright red-flowered herb was traditionally used by the indigenous people of what is now the state of Nevada, and by the Zapotec people of Oaxaca, where it is still frequently added to a pot of beans or rice.
A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina 2006
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Hierba de conejo (Indian paintbrush) castilleja lanata: Growing wild in desert areas of the United States and Mexico, this bright red-flowered herb was traditionally used by the indigenous people of what is now the state of Nevada, and by the Zapotec people of Oaxaca, where it is still frequently added to a pot of beans or rice.
A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina 2006
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There are many cases where a single pollinator is responsible for pollinating many species of plants, for example long-tongued flies (Tabanidae and Nemestrinidae) are the exclusive pollinators of many genera of petaloid monocots as well as Pelargonium and Erica; a butterfly is the exclusive pollinator of a phylogenetically disparate group of red-flowered and autumn-flowering species; hopliine (monkey) beetle pollination has evolved convergently in many genera, etc.
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