lipstick plant

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   epiphyte or creeping on rocks; Malaysian plant having somewhat fleshy leaves and bright red flowers

   SynonymsAeschynanthus radicans

   Broaderaeschynanthus

Questions about lipstick plant

What does lipstick plant mean?

lipstick plant means "epiphyte or creeping on rocks; Malaysian plant having somewhat fleshy leaves and bright red flowers".

What is another word for lipstick plant?

Close synonyms include Aeschynanthus radicans. 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 lipstick plant a common word?

lipstick 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.