calliandra

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Noun

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calliandra (uncountable)

  1. A flowering plant of the genus Calliandra.
    • 1998, Agriculture & Industry Survey, volume 8, page 40:
      After cutting, calliandra sprouts so readily that it has been called the plant that begs to be cut.
    • 2017 July, “Letters to the Editor: How to feed a lactating dairy cow and grow canola”, in Daily Nation[1]:
      I have inter-planted calliandra with potato vines.