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red-hot pokers

red-hot pokers is the plural of red-hot poker.

Meaning of red-hot poker

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.

Questions about red-hot pokers

What is red-hot pokers the plural of?
Red-hot pokers is the plural of red-hot poker.

Words near red-hot pokers in the dictionary

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

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