carrion flower (redirected from Carrion-flower)

carrion flower

n.

1. Any of several North American plants of the genus Smilax, especially S. herbacea, an herbaceous tendril-bearing vine having clusters of small greenish flowers with the odor of decaying flesh.

2. See starfish flower.

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carrion flower

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several other plants, esp any of the genus Stapelia, whose flowers have an unpleasant odour

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Noun

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carrion flower - any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers stapelia, starfish flower herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Stapelia - genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East India Stapelias asterias - stapelia of Cape Province having mostly dark red-brown flowers with flat starlike corollas