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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:

1. four o'clocksplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS MIRABILIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS MIRABILIS (noun)


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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