MOUNTAIN FOUR O'CLOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mountain four o'clock mean? 

• MOUNTAIN FOUR O'CLOCK (noun)
  The noun MOUNTAIN FOUR O'CLOCK has 1 sense:

1. leafy wildflower with lavender-pink flowers that open in the evening and remain through cool part of the next day; found in open woods or brush in mountains of southern Colorado to Arizona and into Mexico

  Familiarity information: MOUNTAIN FOUR O'CLOCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNTAIN FOUR O'CLOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leafy wildflower with lavender-pink flowers that open in the evening and remain through cool part of the next day; found in open woods or brush in mountains of southern Colorado to Arizona and into Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Mirabilis oblongifolia; mountain four o'clock

Hypernyms ("mountain four o'clock" is a kind of...):

four o'clock (any of several plants of the genus Mirabilis having flowers that open in late afternoon)