Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An annual composite garden flower, Emilia sagittata (Cacalia coccinea). It has rayless tassel-formed orange-scarlet heads, nearly an inch broad.
- noun A shrub or tree of the genus Inga.
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The scarlet tassel-flower utterly refuses to unfold his brave plumes.
Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864
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