SWEET SAND VERBENA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet sand verbena mean? 

• SWEET SAND VERBENA (noun)
  The noun SWEET SAND VERBENA has 2 senses:

1. taller than Abronia elliptica and having night-blooming flowers

2. plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions

  Familiarity information: SWEET SAND VERBENA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEET SAND VERBENA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Taller than Abronia elliptica and having night-blooming flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Abronia fragrans; sweet sand verbena

Hypernyms ("sweet sand verbena" is a kind of...):

sand verbena (any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Abronia elliptica; snowball; sweet sand verbena

Hypernyms ("sweet sand verbena" is a kind of...):

sand verbena (any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena)