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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Castilleia, primarily C. coccinea, the scarlet painted-cup: so called from the highly colored dilated bracts about the flowers.
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- noun any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts
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