beefsteak plant

Questions about beefsteak plant

What does beefsteak plant mean?

beefsteak plant means "plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for beefsteak plant?

Close synonyms include Perilla frutescens crispa, beef plant, Iresine herbstii, Iresine reticulata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beefsteak plant a common word?

beefsteak plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.