love-lies-bleeding

noun

1

: a cultivated plant of the genus Amaranthus (especially A. caudatus)

2

: bleeding heart sense 1

3

: pheasant's-eye sense 1

Word History

First Known Use

1664, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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