pelican-flower
鹈鹕花,盆花,盆景花
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- : a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
Examples
He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).
Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
Something can happen in Whittier this morning and by the afternoon the brothers in Pelican Bay know all about it.
Gang warlords, locked down in Super Maxes like Pelican Bay pass on instructions to thousands of followers.
There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack.
Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
The flower stems on the American varieties are much longer than those of European tobaccos and also larger.
Black Sheep retreated to the nursery and read "Cometh up as a Flower" with deep and uncomprehending interest.
Her face was mild and pale; but it was the transparent hue of the virgin flower of spring, clad in her veiling leaves.
And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.