moonflower
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English
Etymology
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Noun
moonflower (plural moonflowers)
- Any of several plants that flower at night:
- (obsolete) An ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
- A corn marigold, Glebionis segetum.
- Any of several vines of the genus Ipomoea, especially Ipomoea alba.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 46:
- Hôtel Saint-George […] through whose exotic gardens of giant contorted euphorbia and sweet-smelling moonflowers Churchill and the titans of the Second World War strolled, laying plans for a world in which Anglo-Saxon predominance seemed assured in perpetuity.
- Any of species in genus Cereus and in (Stenocereus (syn. Hylocereus) spp.).
- Any of species of Datura, including Datura inoxia.
- Any of species of Mentzelia, including Mentzelia pumila.
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Ipomoea alba
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