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Definition of Genus Mirabilis
1. Noun. Four o'clocks.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Allioniaceae, Family Allioniaceae, Family Nyctaginaceae, Four-o'clock Family, Nyctaginaceae
Member holonyms: Umbrellawort, Four O'clock, California Four O'clock, Mirabilis Californica, Mirabilis Laevis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mirabilis
Literary usage of Genus Mirabilis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... genus Mirabilis MIRABILIS (Latin, mirabilis, admirable, wonderful). A genus
of about ten species of tuberous-rooted perennial herbs, with opposite ..."
2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"... hybrids in the genus Mirabilis vary almost infinitely, and he describes new
and singular characters in the form of the seeds, in the colour of the ..."
3. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1887)
"... hybrids in the genus Mirabilis vary almost infinitely, and he describes new
and singular characters in the form of the seeds, in the colour of the ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... (mär'vel-ov-pe-rö'), »• A plant of the genus Mirabilis, M. Jalapa, native in
tropical America, and common in flower-gardens ; the four-o'clock. ..."
5. An Introduction to Latin Syntax, Or, An Exemplification of the Rules of by John Mair, George Edmund Ironside (1813)
"Titus succeeded Vespasian, a Vespasianus Titus suc- man admirable for all sorts
of cedo, vir omnis virtus virtues, so lhat he was called the genus mirabilis ..."
6. Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution by Robert Heath Lock (1906)
"An extreme instance of this circumstance was met with in the case of the genus
Mirabilis. Mirabilis jalapa was easily fertilized with pollen from M. ..."
7. Variation in Animals and Plants by Horace Middleton Vernon (1903)
"... says that hybrids in the genus Mirabilis vary almost infinitely, and he
describes new and singular characters in the seeds, anthers, and cotyledons. ..."
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