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Coleus

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Noun

1. coleus, flame nettle

any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Coleus

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noun plural -uses
any plant of the Old World genus Coleus: cultivated for their variegated leaves, typically marked with red, yellow, or white: family Lamiaceae (labiates)

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Coleus

see synonyms of coleus
noun
any of a genus (Coleus) of plants of the mint family, native to Africa and the East Indies, grown for their bright-colored leaves

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Coleus

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n.
Any of various plants in the mint family formerly of the genus Coleus, especially Solenostemon scutellarioides and some species in the genus Plectranthus, native to tropical Africa and Asia and widely grown as ornamentals for their multicolored leaves.

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