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Definition of Night-blooming cereus

1. Noun. Any of several night-blooming cacti of the genus Selenicereus.

2. Noun. Any of several cacti of the genus Hylocereus.

3. Noun. Any of several cacti of the genus Cereus.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Night-blooming Cereus

nighed nighen nigher nighest nighing nighly nighness nighnesses nighs nighsome

night-bat night-bats night-blind night-blooming night-blooming cereus (current term) night-light night-line night-rail night-raven night-robe

night-sight night-soil night-soils night-stop night-terrors night-time night and day

Literary usage of Night-blooming cereus

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

1. The American Female Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by Caroline May (1848)
"... the angel of this world of tears, Pointed with radiant brow to future years. Alas! for us the Future wove Love's shroud! TO THE night-blooming cereus. ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1899)
"... A Text-book of General Botany; Atkinson, Elementary Botany; Strasburger, a Text- Book of Botany. (Translated by Porter.) A "night-blooming cereus ..."

3. A Furnace of Earth by Hallie Erminie Rives (1900)
"Her love for him is most exquisite; it always reminds me of the perfume of the night-blooming- cereus." He took his leave of Margaret with grave courtesy ..."

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