perilla frutescens crispa

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   plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage

   Synonymsbeefsteak plant

   Broaderherb

   Part ofPerilla

Questions about perilla frutescens crispa

What does perilla frutescens crispa mean?

perilla frutescens crispa means "plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage".

What is another word for perilla frutescens crispa?

Close synonyms include beefsteak plant. 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 perilla frutescens crispa a common word?

perilla frutescens crispa 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.