Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Any of various plants of the genera Oenothera and Calylophus having four-petaled yellow flowers that bloom during the day.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hardy biennial or perennial plant, Œnothera fruticosa, of eastern North America, a shrubby herb from 1 to 3 feet high, often cultivated for its profuse bright-yellow flowers. Differently from the related evening primrose, its flowers open by day. See cut under
Œnothera .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any one of the several species of Kneiffia, esp.
K. fruticosa (syn.Œnothera fruticosa ), of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
evening primrose
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a day-flowering biennial or perennial of the genus Oenothera
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Examples
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My sundrops are in buds so soon it will be a sea of yellow..lol.
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Those yellow sundrops are open here along the wall behind the main house.
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This is far better than lounging about in the core with that woman's honeyed voice singing, singing endlessly about nauseating things like sundrops and moondrops and teardrops.
Archive 2008-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2008
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This is far better than lounging about in the core with that woman's honeyed voice singing, singing endlessly about nauseating things like sundrops and moondrops and teardrops.
Core on a Cord Megan Arkenberg 2008
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The Cottonwood area at the southern end of the Joshua Tree National Park is starting to sparkle with desert alyssum, sundrops, desert dandelion and beavertail cactus.
Latest Articles Record Gazette 2010
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Just as your eye adjusts to the subtle shades of sage and silver and tawny gold, the grace of the draped forms of evergreens, suddenly you discover the gleaming lavender - leaf sundrops - bright-yellow Arizona wildflowers, blooming their 2-inch-tall hearts out.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local <B>By Susan Clotfelter </B><br><I>The Denver Post 2010
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Italian arum, heucheras such as Bronze Wave and Citronelle, yuccas such as Color Guard and Sapphire Skies, Becky daisies, sundrops, Stokes aster, foamflowers, Georgia Blue veronica and dianthus, such as Bath's Pink and Firewitch.
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Some of our best spring and summer perennials, including Becky daisies, sundrops
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Canary yellow, like sundrops and wood poppies, occupy yellow's "inner core."
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