Usually means: Flowering plant, often called spiderflower.
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  1. cleome: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cleome, cleome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cleome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cleome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cleome, cleome: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cleome, cleome: Wordnik
  7. cleome: Wiktionary
  8. cleome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cleome: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cleome: Dictionary.com
  11. Cleome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cleome: Rhymezone
  13. cleome: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cleome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cleome: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cleome)

▸ noun:  (botany) Any flowering plant in the genus Cleome.

Similar:
spiderflower, cleistogene, clypeola, cleistocarp, clusia, clistogene, citroid, clistocarp, cymbidium, coelogyne, more...

Types:
climbing cleome, spider flower, sneezeweed, spiderwort, more...

Phrases:
Cleome hassleriana, Cleome serrulata, genus cleome, cleome pinnata, Cleome gynandra, more...

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Similar:
spiderflower, cleistogene, clypeola, cleistocarp, clusia, clistogene, citroid, clistocarp, cymbidium, coelogyne, more...

Types:
climbing cleome, spider flower, sneezeweed, spiderwort, more...

Phrases:
Cleome hassleriana, Cleome serrulata, genus cleome, cleome pinnata, Cleome gynandra, more...



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