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Definition of Evening primrose
1. Noun. Any of several plants of the family Onagraceae.
Group relationships: Evening-primrose Family, Family Onagraceae, Onagraceae
Specialized synonyms: Enchanter's Nightshade, Common Evening Primrose, German Rampion, Oenothera Biennis, Oenothera Fruticosa, Sundrops, Missouri Primrose, Oenothera Macrocarpa, Ozark Sundrops
Definition of Evening primrose
1. Noun. Various flowering plants of the genus ''Oenothera'', in the family Onagraceae, especially the common evening primrose, ''Oenothera biennis''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Evening Primrose
Literary usage of Evening primrose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Experiments with plants by Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (1905)
"249 is shown a leaf of Lamarck's evening primrose and also one of a new species
which sprang from it, namely, the Broad evening primrose ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"THE evening primrose. THERE are that love the shades of life, ... Thon vainer
flowers tho' sweeter far, The evening Primrose shuns the day ; Blooms only to ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Family 87. ONAGRACEAE Dumort. Anal. Fam. 36. EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY. Annual or
perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, with alternate or opposite leaves, ..."
4. Genetics; an Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1922)
"LAMARCK'S evening primrose Perhaps the most widely known plant mutations are the
progeny of Lamarck's evening primrose, ..."
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