Meaning of moonflower | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of several plants that flower at night:
   obsolete
2. An ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
   obsolete
3. A corn marigold, Glebionis segetum.
4. Any of several vines of the genus Ipomoea, especially Ipomoea alba.
5. Any of species in genus Cereus and in (Stenocereus (syn. Hylocereus) spp.).
6. Any of species of Datura, including Datura inoxia.
7. Any of species of Mentzelia, including Mentzelia pumila.

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Examples

“Hôtel Saint-George […] through whose exotic gardens of giant contorted euphorbia and sweet-smelling moonflowers Churchill and the titans of the Second World War strolled, laying plans for a world in which Anglo-Saxon predominance seemed assured in perpetuity.”

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