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red-hot poker

NOUN
  1. widely cultivated hybrid poker plant

How To Use red-hot poker In A Sentence

  • Tall strap-leafed phormiums, or New Zealand flax, and the architectural-looking kniphofia, or red-hot poker, added structure just as surely as did the seating areas, paths, and stone work.
  • I like the grassy foliage and orange-yellow torchlike blooms of kniphofia, aka red-hot poker and torch lily.
  • The arrangement of pendulous petal groups has a similar appearance to that of the red-hot poker or some aloe flowers.
  • It is like comparing a red-hot poker pulled from a fire with the filament in an electric light bulb: there is no doubt concerning which is the brighter.
  • Once come the catchpoll to mine house, -- I wis not on what business, for, poor man! he tarried not to tell me when I come at him with the red-hot poker. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
  • Native plants are preferable, but many enthusiasts swear by exotics such as single varieties of fuchsia, as well as lantana and red-hot poker.
  • Tall strap-leafed phormiums, or New Zealand flax, and the architectural-looking kniphofia, or red-hot poker, added structure just as surely as did the seating areas, paths, and stone work.
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