WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

beefsteak plant
    n 1: plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage [syn:
         beefsteak plant, Perilla frutescens crispa]
    2: South American plant having green to purple or red branches
       with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of
       insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts [syn:
       beefsteak plant, beef plant, Iresine herbstii, Iresine
       reticulata]