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noun
Any of a wide variety of plants that have a scent of carrion that attracts certain animals to the plants from which they disperse pollen, seeds. or spores.
Amorphophallus spp., arums of the Old World tropics.
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noun
Any of a wide variety of plants that have a scent of carrion that attracts certain animals to the plants from which they disperse pollen, seeds. or spores.
Rafflesia spp., of southeast Asia.
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noun
Any of a wide variety of plants that have a scent of carrion that attracts certain animals to the plants from which they disperse pollen, seeds. or spores.
Stapelia spp., of Africa, especially South Africa.
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noun
Any of a wide variety of plants that have a scent of carrion that attracts certain animals to the plants from which they disperse pollen, seeds. or spores.
Smilax (syn. Nemexia), herabaceous vines of North America
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noun
Any of a wide variety of plants that have a scent of carrion that attracts certain animals to the plants from which they disperse pollen, seeds. or spores.
Bulbophyllum spp., certain orchids
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noun
Any of a wide variety of plants that have a scent of carrion that attracts certain animals to the plants from which they disperse pollen, seeds. or spores.
Other plants, including Aristolochia clematitis, Arum maculatum, Asimina spp. (pawpaws), Crescentia alata, Dracunculus vulgaris, Helicodiceros muscivorus, Huernia spp., Hydnora spp., Lysichiton americanum, Sterculia foetida, Symplocarpus foetidus, Trillium sessile, Tiputinia foetida, Satyrium pumilum, Moraea lurida, Ferraria crispa
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noun
any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stapelia, starfish flower
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: Stapelias asterias
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