parrot's beak

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parrot's beak - evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers; New Zealand

clianthus, glory pea - any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes

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You may see this traditionally referred to as "soft peaks," but in French, they call it the "bec de perroquet," or parrot's beak, and I think it's such a useful image, though slightly loony.

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In this faux-aged terra-cotta pot, the barberry rises above a green and coral pork and beans stonecrop (Sedum x rubrotinctum) and a parrot's beak (Lotus maculatus), which dangles its soft stems over the edge.

Darkness falls: forget the fake Halloween cobwebs: these plants will set a moody--even spooky--tone on your porch for fall

"There's a lot of nerves in a parrot's beak. It's as sensitive as a finger tip, so it would have smarted."

Who's a pretty boy again? Parrot has nose job after door injury

For each blossom is shaped like a claw or parrot's beak, due to its generous-sized 'keel' petal, enveloped by a richly velvety black calyx.

A garden spectacle

Head baddie Mackenzie Crook fared even worse dressed as one of Showaddywaddy, talking like an EastEnders' villain and wearing a metal parrot's beak.