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unicorn plant
n.
Any of several annual North American herbs of the genus Proboscidea, having large leaves with long petioles and axillary racemes of large purple or creamy-white flowers, grown for their slender protuberant seed pods which may be pickled like cucumbers when young or dried for use in ornamental arrangements.
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Universalium. 2010.