evening primrose


noun
  1. a plant, Oenothera biennis, having yellow flowers that open at nightfall.

  2. any of various plants of the same or related genera.

Origin of evening primrose

1
First recorded in 1800–10

Words Nearby evening primrose

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How to use evening primrose in a sentence

  • In another locality I might have brought him dwarf cornel, or the houstonia, or wood-sorrel, or the evening-primrose.

    Under the Maples | John Burroughs

British Dictionary definitions for evening primrose

evening primrose

noun
  1. any onagraceous plant of the genus Oenothera, native to North America but widely cultivated and naturalized, typically having yellow flowers that open in the evening

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