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Noun

1. 1
   Any of several similar leguminous plants with showy scarlet or crimson flowers.; Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa, syn. Clianthus dampieri), of Australia and New Zealand.
2. 2
   any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes wordnet
3. 3
   Any of several similar leguminous plants with showy scarlet or crimson flowers.; Kakabeaks (Cilanthus spp.)
4. 4
   Any of several similar leguminous plants with showy scarlet or crimson flowers.; Kakabeaks (Cilanthus spp.); especially, northern kakabeak (Clianthus puniceus), of Australia and New Zealand.
5. 5
   Any of several similar leguminous plants with showy scarlet or crimson flowers.; scarlet sesbane (Sesbania punicea), native from Brazil to Argentina, cultivated widely, but invasive.

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clianthus