a widely grown tropical American plant (Beloperone guttata) of the acanthus family, with long, curving spikes of tiny, white flowers
Origin of shrimp plant
from the fancied resemblance of the spike to the tail of a shrimpshrimp plant
shrimp plantWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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