1. erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes; [syn: thorny amaranth, Amaranthus spinosus]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Amaranthus spinosus
n 1: erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a
pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes [syn: thorny
amaranth, Amaranthus spinosus]