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GENUS MIRABILIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Mirabilis mean?
• GENUS MIRABILIS (noun)
The noun GENUS MIRABILIS has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GENUS MIRABILIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Four o'clocks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Mirabilis; Mirabilis
Hypernyms ("genus Mirabilis" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "genus Mirabilis"):
umbrellawort (a plant of the genus Mirabilis)
four o'clock (any of several plants of the genus Mirabilis having flowers that open in late afternoon)
California four o'clock; Mirabilis californica; Mirabilis laevis (California four o'clock with purple-red flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Mirabilis" is a member of...):
Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae (a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales)
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