EVENING PRIMROSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evening primrose mean? 

• EVENING PRIMROSE (noun)
  The noun EVENING PRIMROSE has 1 sense:

1. any of several plants of the family Onagraceae

  Familiarity information: EVENING PRIMROSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENING PRIMROSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the family Onagraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("evening primrose" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evening primrose"):

enchanter's nightshade (any of several erect perennial rhizomatous herbs of the genus Circaea having white flowers that open at dawn; northern hemisphere)

common evening primrose; German rampion; Oenothera biennis (a coarse biennial of eastern North America with yellow flowers that open in the evening; naturalized in Europe)

Oenothera fruticosa; sundrops (a day-flowering biennial or perennial of the genus Oenothera)

Missouri primrose; Oenothera macrocarpa; Ozark sundrops (evening-opening primrose of south central United States)

Holonyms ("evening primrose" is a member of...):

evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae (a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales)