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red-hot poker

red-hot poker noun: many of the species of flowering plants of the genus Kniphofia, that produce an inflorescence in the form of a raceme of red flowers that turn yellow as they mature.

red-hot poker: many of the species of flowering plants of the genus Kniphofia, that produce an inflorescence in...
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Noun

red-hot poker (plural red-hot pokers)

  1. Many of the species of flowering plants of the genus Kniphofia, that produce an inflorescence in the form of a raceme of red flowers that turn yellow as they mature.
    • The Kniphofia (the “red-hot poker” of our gardens) is on the borderland between the grotesque and the beautiful. When its flower spike is in full bearing and the many little tube-like flowers are scarlet, lightening into yellow, it offers a fine body of colour; but without the bloom the plant with...1897 Sir Harry Johnston -- British Central Africa
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red-hot, poker.

Synonyms of red-hot poker

Forms of red-hot poker

pluralred-hot pokers

Questions about red-hot poker

What does red-hot poker mean?
Red-hot poker means many of the species of flowering plants of the genus Kniphofia, that produce an inflorescence in the form of a raceme of red flowers that turn yellow as they mature.
What part of speech is red-hot poker?
Red-hot poker is a noun.
What is the plural of red-hot poker?
The plural of red-hot poker is red-hot pokers.

Words near red-hot poker in the dictionary

  1. red-headed woodpecker
  2. red-headed woodpeckers
  3. red-hot
  4. red-hot minute
  5. red-hot minutes
  6. red-hot poker
  7. red-hot pokers
  8. red-hots
  9. red-humped caterpillar
  10. red-humped caterpillars
  11. red-inker

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