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evening primrose

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. evening primrose (noun)
  2. evening-primrose family (noun)

evening primrose

noun

Definition of EVENING PRIMROSE

: any of several dicotyledonous plants of a family (Onagraceae, the evening-primrose family) and especially of the type genus (Oenothera); especially : a coarse biennial herb (O. biennis) of North America with yellow flowers that open in the evening
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First Known Use of EVENING PRIMROSE

1804

Rhymes with EVENING PRIMROSE

anastomose, follow one's nose, look down one's nose, metamorphose, overexpose, pay through the nose, photocompose, superimpose, underexpose, under one's nose

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