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Carrion flower   /kˈɛriən flˈaʊər/   Listen
Carrion flower

noun
1.
Any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers.  Synonyms: stapelia, starfish flower.






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"Carrion flower" Quotes from Famous Books



... which I saw first on the hill at Provincetown, and afterward discovered in Longnook. It was not abundant in either place, and in my eyes had less of beauty than its familiar relatives, the common greenbrier (cat-brier, horse-brier, Indian-brier) of my boyhood, and the carrion flower. This glaucous smilax was one of the plants that attracted Thoreau's attention, if I remember right, though I cannot now put my finger upon his reference to it. Equally new to me, and much more beautiful, as well as more characteristic of the ...
— The Foot-path Way • Bradford Torrey



Words linked to "Carrion flower" :   Stapelias asterias, herbaceous plant, stapelia, genus Stapelia, herb



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