Definition of Flower-of-an-hour

1. Noun. Annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Flower-of-an-hour

flowchart
flowcharting
flowchartings
flowcharts
flowed
flowen
flower-cup fern
flower-de-luce
flower-fence
flower-fences
flower-flies
flower-fly
flower-gentle
flower-gentles
flower-of-an-hour (current term)
flower-petal
flower-petals
flower-spray ending
flower-spray organ of Ruffini
flower-sweet
flower/er
flower arrangement
flower basket of Bochdalek
flower bed
flower beds
flower box
flower boxes
flower bud
flower chain

Literary usage of Flower-of-an-hour

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"... or Flower of an Hour/" Notwithstanding the facetiousness of the good Gerarde, however, the Venice Mallow must be contented with her own natural ..."

2. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"289 Flower-of-an-Hour, Flower and Leaves of 291 Musk Mallow, Flower and Leaves of 292 Actinidia, Leaf of 295 Gold Flower, Flowering Stem of 296 Pansy, ..."

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