love-lies-bleeding in English

noun
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a South American plant with long, drooping tassels of crimson flowers. Cultivated today as an ornamental, it was formerly an important cereal-type crop in the Andes.
Here a bouquet of dahlias, astilbe, and love-lies-bleeding is tucked into a wire basket embellished with supermarket rhubarb.

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1. Synonym(s): love-lies-bleeding, red Cockscomb.