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Noun: cruel plant
  1. Robust twining shrub having racemes of fragrant white or pink flowers with flat spreading terminal petals that trap nocturnal moths and hold them until dawn
    "The cruel plant's flowers became a deadly trap for moths";
    - Araujia sericofera

Derived forms: cruel plants

Type of: vine

Part of: Araujia, genus Araujia

Encyclopedia: Cruel plant