Meanings
nounstarfish flower (plural starfish flowers)
plural starfish flowers
- Either of two species of flowering plant
- Stapelia grandiflora
- Stapelia hirsuta
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers
Similar
Broader
herbherbaceous plant
Also see
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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