painted-tongue

painted tongue

noun
a Chilean plant, Salpiglossis sinuata, of the nightshade family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
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painted tongue

noun
Chilean herb having velvety funnel-shaped yellowish or violet flowers with long tonguelike styles at the corolla throat 
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Painted-tongue is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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